Details of the achievements: 1. Significant achievements for contract workers in security and cleaning: Amendment to the law – public bodies and services contractors in the security and cleaning sectors will be obligated to the terms reached in the agreement between the state and the Histadrut on contract workers in the security and cleaning sectors. […]
The western world would not be faced with the stagnant growth and unemployment problems if it did not have trade unions, the CEO of Qatar Airways. Akbar Al Baker made the comments in retaliation to recent criticisms of the Gulf state’s labour policies by international trade union bodies. “If you did not have unions you […]
Lufthansa said it had reached agreement on a pay deal with the union representing 33,000 of its staff, averting further industrial action after a series of debilitating strikes grounded flights at Europe’s largest airline by revenues. The German airline said staff would get wage increases of between 3 and 5.2 per cent, to be paid […]
The ITF and International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have condemned the Qatari government’s reported bid to have the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) headquarters relocated from Canada to the country’s capital, Doha.
ITF gener…
ITF affiliate Turkish Civil Aviation Unions (Hava-İş) has announced it will take strike action on 15 May at every company owned by Turkish Airlines (THY).
The announcement follows several attempts by the union to negotiate with the company over the c…
Strikes by Israeli aviation workers protesting against government plans to sign an ‘open skies’ agreement with the EU led the finance ministry to accept the demands of ITF affiliate the Transport Workers’ Union of Histadrut and finance 97.5 per cen…
In an act of global solidarity with workers locked out of Philippine Airlines since September 2011, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) and ITF’s Sydney office leafleted the company’s passengers at Sydney Air…
Following resounding protests from the ITF, NATCA (National Air Traffic Controllers Association), PASS (Professional Aviation Safety Specialists) and other organisations, the furloughing of all US FAA employees has been halted.
On 26 April, the US Co…