Belgium: trade unions and the Charleroi airport’s management signed a social peace agreement

After several industrial disputes at Charleroi airport and after the threat uttered by Ryanair, main economic operator in the airport, to stop its connections with this destination, unions and the Walloon government signed, on August 24, a “social peace agreement” which establishes an obligation to negotiate before any conflict and a minimum limit for the strike notice. (Ref. 070703)
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Background. Following the strike by the Charleroi airport’s security agents on June 15, caused by the plans to restructure the airport’s security activities, Ryanair, its main economic operator, announced that it suspended reservations on its connections with Charleroi. Ryanair’s management, tired of repeated wildcat strikes, posed as a sine qua non condition to the resumption of its activities, the establishment of an obligation to social peace or of minimum service in the event of a strike to

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