The mediation meeting between the workers and representatives of the management of the security company Eulen that was held at the Labour Court of Catalonia (TLC), ended after less than an hour of dialogue and without any kind of agreement, leaving little hope of reaching an agreement to avoid the call of a partial strike starting this Friday, Sunday and Monday by the staff of the private security company at Barcelona's El Prat airport, as previously warned.

The representatives of the workers indicated that there was a big gap between the positions of the company and the workers, and recognised that in the mediation it was not possible to enter into discussions about specific points of the collective conflict due to the management accusing the strike committee of preventing a vote from all the workforce. The representatives of the company Eulen did not want to make appraisals at the end of the meeting.

Juan Carlos Giménez, an advisor to the strike committee for the workers of Eulen, described as ''reckless'' the position of the representatives of the company in the mediation meeting that was held before the mediators of the employers and workers of the TLC. Whilst the representatives of the company left the meeting refusing to make statements in front of the media, they did have a balance of the mediation delegates of the workforce.

Giménez explained that in the meeting they were not able to enter into dialogue about any of the demands of the workers because at the beginning of the mediation the company presented a set of ''false'' claims that the strike committee did not allow voting by all of Eulen's employees when it was decided to go on strike.

The timetable of the strike

The workers of Eulen maintain the indefinite partial strike that, as El Nacional has already advanced, will have a duration of four hours intermittently, on Fridays, Sunday and Mondays at the El Prat airport from 5:30am to 6:30am, 10:30am to 11:30am, 4:30pm to 5:30pm, and from 6:30pm in 7:30pm.

Possible solution?

The association of travel agencies, Acave, has proposed that Aena cancels the contract that it maintains with Eulen, the concessionaire company that manages the security filters at the airport. In statements made to Catalunya Ràdio, the president of Acave, Martí Sarrate, has said that the solution would be to convene another public tender to manage the service.