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HAPPY HOLIDAY
wo hundred and thirty employees of budget airline Ryanair’s handling company at Alicante-Elche airport, Lesma, are to go on a fourday strike at the height of the Easter holiday season. A union leader has claimed that all flights involving the budget airline will be affected. The strike is scheduled to run from this Good Friday (April 14th) through to the end of Monday, with 230 employees who work for Lesma Handling taking the action over a dispute to do with contracts, working conditions, and pay rates. Lesma has been in charge of providing ground handling services for Ryanair’s flights at AlicanteElche airport since last year, and they provide all support
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Thursday 13th April 2017
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BY ALEX TRELINSKI to passengers in the terminal, as well as supervising access to travellers and airport workers to the actual planes. Union chief Carlos
Iborra said this week that all Ryanair flights would be hit, and that the chances of reaching any sort of deal with management seemed
remote before Friday. A number of shorter stoppages took place in February causing delays to Ryanair services.
FOOTING THE BILL
wenty three million euro has been allocated by the Madrid government to deal with the damage caused by the winter storms to the River Segura across Alicante Province and the Murcia region. The money has been given to the Segura’s management body, the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura (CHS), who have already started on work on a variety of projects locally, as well as further afield. Improvements will be made in the Guardamar, Rojales, Formentera and Orihuela (pictured in December) areas to the
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BY ALEX TRELINSKI Segura and its surrounds, with repairs being undertaken to some of the banks and the channels. Damages to
local reservoirs are also part of the government package, in addition to work on the Albujón rambla and its tribu-
taries covering the Cartagena, Los Alcázares and Torre Pacheco municipalities.
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