MADRID, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Striking union workers clashedwith police at Madrid's Barajas airport on Monday on the firstday of a week-long strike over more than 3,800 pending job cutsat Spain's flagship airline Iberia.
Hundreds of workers demonstrated outside Barajas, Iberia'shub, and inside the airport's Terminal 4 where they carried out a sit-in and chanted and whistled.
Outside the terminal police beat some strikers withtruncheons.
Staff, including baggage handlers and air stewards, areholding three five-day strikes in February and March to protestmanagement plans to axe jobs and cut salaries at the loss-makingairline.
More than 80 Iberia flights were cancelled on Monday asworkers at the carrier began the series of strikes that isexpected to cost the airline and struggling national economymillions of euros in lost business.