A new resource for unions to fight TiSA

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released a new report entitled, “All about TiSA: Everything you didn’t know about the Trade in Services Agreement”. Several Global Union Federations, including the ITF, provided a critical analysis of TiSA in relation to their own industries. The part on air transport was prepared by our Section. The report […]


November 15, 2016

Factsheet to help protect airport workers from air pollution

The ITF has produced an air quality factsheet to strengthen aviation unions’ efforts to combat air pollution at airports, which is a serious and overlooked work-related threat. Workers working close to exhaust from aircraft engines and diesel engines in airports are exposed to a complex mixture of potential health damaging air pollutants. The main concern […]


November 11, 2016

European ATM workers defend right to strike (airtrafficmanagement.net)

European air traffic controllers have hit back again at the attacks of airline industry group Airlines for Europe (A4E) on the rights of ATM workers. Air Traffic Controllers European Unions Coordination (ATCEUC) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), representing together the entire community of European air traffic controllers and other staff in air traffic […]


November 10, 2016

easyJet breastfeeding ruling is human rights victory for working women (unitelegalservices.org)

A landmark victory for two easyJet cabin crew will have wide implications for working women wishing to continue breastfeeding after their maternity leave ends, Unite, the country’s largest union, has said. With the support of Unite Legal Services, two members of easyJet’s Bristol based cabin crew, Sara Ambacher and Cynthia McFarlane, mothers of baby boys […]


November 1, 2016