Spanish air traffic controllers will not mount a strike this month, the spokesman of the USCA union said.
The decision was taken during the union's Executive Committee meeting earlier this week.

A majority of the USCA's roughly 1,800 members voted Aug. 3 in favor of striking to protest management's stance in negotiations on a new contract.

Even before last week's vote, Spain's airlines and tourism sector were sounding the alarm about a possible controllers strike at the peak of the summer season with Spain's CEHAT hoteliers association estimating that a strike could cost the industry up to 40 million euros a day.

The USCA is worried about new regulations allowing the outsourcing of air traffic control to private companies and angry over officials' charges that controllers at some towers were engaging in a sickout to influence the contract talks.

(EFE)