Willie Walsh risks fresh industrial relations strife after Spanish unions reacted angrily to plans by his International Airlines Group, the holding company formed by British Airways and Iberia, to create a separate low-cost carrier.
Workers at Kuwait Airways have called off strike action after the union representing them reached a tentative agreement with the government. They had been set for industrial action on 10 October over the state-owned company’s refusal to grant them benefits awarded to other public sector workers.
The ITF is calling on unions around the world to show solidarity with their aviation worker colleagues in the Philippines whose jobs are being outsourced.
Aviation trade unions from across the Arab World meeting in Beirut today backed their 200 plus colleagues in Gulf Air who have been unfairly dismissed.
For more than two years, the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA), the ground crew union of Philippines Airlines (PAL), has been fighting an outsourcing plan that will lay off 2,600 employees and downgrade them from regular to contractual workers. The dispute has now escalated with the forcible eviction and lock out of some 2,600 workers and dismissals as of 1 October.
The world’s most unpleasant airline? That’s not quite how they put it in the adverts.
The Luton-based carrier, which is already in a running battle with founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, will on Thursday announce that it is opening two new bases in Nice and Toulouse – a pre-emptive strike against Air France.
The premiere episode of the new Pan Am drama on ABC may be a nostalgic escape to the days before deregulation, but it also highlighted the myriad of social injustices overcome by the strong women who shaped a new career