It was not "brutally announced", as you suggest. It was Brussels Airport - and not Swissport, as you say - who announced it. And Brussels Airport didn't announce that hundreds of people would loose their job. Brussels Airport only announced its decision which two companies have received the two 7 year contracts.airazurxtror wrote:I am surely no supporter of strikes, but when you brutally announce to 1200 persons that up to half of them are about to lose their job, you are bound to get a brutal reaction.
It must be recognized that the agreement that has been reached today after a few hours of negociation could have been concluded before, and the strike avoided.
And if that firing of people was so easily avoidable, it was stupid not to say it at once.
The Swissport HR manager is obviously not very bright !
There was only one way for Brussels Airport to tell this: by telling it.
It was the union leaders - who were the first to hear from it - who have caused the problems. Example: they could have said "it's only from 1st November, so let's not panic". The union leaders could have said to their members: "Swissport will need lots of staff, and most likely they will take over all Aviapartner ground handlers".
But the biggest error from the union leaders in this story was their constant refusal for a third handler at BRU - refusal which resulted in minister Schouppe's decision to keep it with two (Schouppe is ACW - union minded).
Indeed this story isn't finished yet 
