MADRID—Iberia SA flight and ground crews formalized a plan on Thursday to walk off the job for six days during the run-up to the Christmas travel season in December, to protest layoffs at the Spanish unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group IAG.MC +0.24% SA.
The workers had earlier said they planned five strike days, but now have called six days, representatives of Spain's General Workers Union, or UGT, said during a news conference in Madrid. They will go on strike on Dec. 14 and Dec. 17-21, the representatives said.
UGT also warned that strikes would continue in January if the company doesn't change plans to cut Iberia's workforce by 21%. The planned layoffs include 573 pilots, 932 cabin-crew members and 3,037 ground-based employees. The airline also plans to cut the wages of many of the remaining workers.
IAG, which also controls British Airways, is Europe's No. 3 airline group, after Air France-KLM AF.FR +0.92% and Deutsche Lufthansa LHA.XE +0.93% AG.
Iberia made an operating loss of €262 million ($338.6 million) for the first nine months of the year, and IAG has said Iberia is incurring losses of €1.7 million a day.
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