Jetstar staff to waive baggage fees on ‘No Weigh Day’ (ASU-Australia)
Jetstar check-in staff will refuse to charge excess baggage for travellers this Friday in the first industrial action ever taken against the airline.
TWU confirms national Qantas action for tomorrow (TWU-Australia)
The Transport Workers Union of Australia (TWU) today confirmed that Qantas ground crews would participate in work stoppages at all major airports tomorrow following further inaction by Qantas to resolve staff requests for job security clauses over the life of the next Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA).
October 12, 2011
Willie Walsh faces strike action over low-cost carrier plan (The Guardian-UK)
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.
October 11, 2011
Aviation workers in Kuwait suspend strike after deal is reached
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.
October 8, 2011
Call for solidarity with Philippine airline 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.
Arab World Cabin Crew unions back Gulf Air workers during their Beirut meeting
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.
October 7, 2011
PALEA NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT TODAY
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.
October 6, 2011
Ryanair The airline that loves nothing more than a hidden extra for its passengers has introduced its Ryanair Cash Passport. You’ve been warned … (The Guardian-UK)
The world’s most unpleasant airline? That’s not quite how they put it in the adverts.