The ITF has urged the Malaysian government to ensure that workers’ rights are preserved in any future collaboration between Malaysia Airlines System (MAS) and low cost carrier Air Asia. It has been reported that an agreement between the two airlines …
Thomas Cook cabin crew, members of Unite, have voted overwhelmingly in a consultative ballot that they wish to take industrial action over the company’s redundancy plans to axe 498 jobs.
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) accepted APFA’s petition for membership this week.
The international labour movement is demanding the urgent withdrawal of prosecutions and dismissals of those involved in the pro-democracy actions that have been sweeping across Bahrain.
The ITF has condemned tactics employed by the executive board of Kuwait Airways to delay agreement on a settlement for the company’s workers.
Workers represented by the ITF-affiliated Kuwait Airways Workers’ Union had reached a tentative settlement earlier this month, giving them the same benefits as other public sector workers; the airline is currently state-owned, but privatisation is looming.
Unionized workers of the Infraero (Brazil’s federal airport authority) will stage a 48-hour strike starting from Thursday, October 20th at 00:01 (local time) in all three Sao Paulo airports and at Brasilia International Airport.
The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) declared their protest camp as its contribution to the Occupy Wall Street movement which has announced today as an International Day of Action. “More than 1,000 PALEA members and supporters have occupied this part of the airport area since September 28 and today we proclaim it to be part of Occupy Wall Street movement. Similar to Occupy Wall Street which has fought eviction by the New York city government and police, we will not surrender this occupation despite continuing threats of demolition,” said Gerry Rivera, PALEA president and vice chair of Partido ng Manggagawa.
As you know, the political situation in Bahrain is critical. The recent detention of doctors for assisting civilians during protests in the capital earlier this year, the prosecution in the military courts of teachers as well as the dismissal of many other workers have already demonstrated that Bahrain’s ruling regime cares little for justice. Transport workers are also under attack.