The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today announced that approximately 28,000 IAM members at United Airlines this week will receive major and much deserved pay increases. Base wage rates will increase by an average of 19 percent and by 2021 will escalate by an average of 32 percent. Since 2014, IAM members […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
IAM members at Philippine Airlines this week voted unanimously to ratify a tentative agreement with the airline. The contract, which was signed yesterday in San Francisco, creates wage increases for IAM members from 2016 through 2019, and retro payments back to July 2016. Other highlights of the new agreement include a signing bonus for all […]
Hong Kong airline says that as a non-American company it is not eligible to make the contributions to social security and health insurance programmes Cathay Pacific faces unrest and deep discontent among its US-employed cabin crew after halting contributions to their social security and health insurance “medicare” programmes. As a result more than 400 people […]
Global trade union leaders meeting in Panama have united in condemnation of TiSA (the Trade in Services Agreement and CETA (the Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement). The representatives, who were attending a key ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) meeting, highlighted the risks that both trade agreements pose to jobs and job security. The two-day event […]
