Royal Air Maroc Unions Reject Massive Layoffs and Fleet Reduction Plan

The recovery plan proposed by the general management of RAM is not validated by the flight crew and members of the company. In total, it is 858 employees including 180 pilots, the reduction of the fleet of 20 aircraft including 4 Boeing 787 and the temporary suspension of certain routes. According to Medias24, the social plan is not to the liking of part of the 600 pilots and the UMT where 2,200 employees out of the 5,000 in the group are unionized.

According to the same site, the UTM and some pilots in line exclude any outright dismissal and demand voluntary departures for all and not just for those over 57 years of age. They complain of having been confronted with a fait accompli without any details. Added to this is the planned departure of a large part of the technical flight crew (current workforce: 600 pilots) and commercial (current workforce: 1,200 flight attendants, stewardesses...) as well as the 500 ground employees of its subsidiary Atlas Multi Services who work at the headquarters or in the agencies for financial, commercial, administrative tasks...

If for the moment, attempts to reach the CEO have remained in vain, a source close to the case argues that this cost reduction plan is the mandatory condition to benefit from financial support from the State.

As for Allal Baba Lahcen, union representative of the 2,200 UMT-affiliated employees of the RAM group, he is angry at the method used by RAM to recover. He assures that he will not let his colleagues "go to the slaughterhouse" without reacting. "As a union, our position is that of all Moroccans, namely to defend the rights of the 858 mothers and fathers of families who refuse to find themselves in precariousness. Indeed, we cannot remain silent, because this decision risks setting a precedent for other state-owned companies," he added.