Airline workers have been talking to travellers about the hazards staff face when handling heavy baggage.
A CRISIS meeting between union bosses representing Cobalt’s ground handlers’ and KLM management has averted the threat of a ballot for strike action in a dispute over staff flight concessions.
Unite’s warning of a ballot, and the launch of the ‘same team, same rights’ campaign on Wednesday brought Cobalt and KLM’s top brass’ to the negotiating table yesterday.
Unions from 11 countries join forces to set standard conditions at Skyteam group firms.
An international campaign for minimum rights standards among workers for airlines in the Skyteam group kicks off tomorrow.
Yesterday’s talks between Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di) and easyJet remained inconclusive – however, a new round is scheduled for Tuesday, 12 July. Therefore, as Holger Rößler, ver.di’s chief negotiator and local branch secretary for aviation, highlighted today, no industrial action will be taken up to and including Wednesday, 13 July.
Air France will ask passengers to clear their seats and take their trash with them when leaving the plane as the carrier seeks to cut costs and stem the advance of EasyJet Plc (EZJ) and Ryanair Holdings Plc (RYA) in its home market.
Is it the end of Tiger Airways Australia, and with it low airfares?
The grounded budget airline maintains it will be back in Australian skies, and for the long term. Others aren’t so sure.
‘‘In the long term, if I was a betting man, I’d say they wouldn’t be around this time next year,’’ Steve Purvinas from the aircraft engineers union said
Gabriel Mocho, civil aviation secretary at ITF, which represents more than 275 unions in aviation, said that many airlines now “prioritise cost over safety” and called on authorities to address growing concern among its members.
Mexicana de Aviacion’s former employees have sued PC Capital, which was unable to come up in March with the $200 million it offered for the bankrupt carrier, for fraud.PC Capital committed alleged fraud against “more than 8,000 workers” of Compañia Mexicana de Aviacion, or CMA, “by delaying the airline’s sale for more than four months via an offer that lacked economic resources,” a group calling itself the Coalition of Workers of Mexicana de Aviacion said.
