On Tuesday, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) joined with hotel workers for a rally demanding that Hyatt Hotels change a host of practices that the Hyatt Hurts campaign touts as the worst in the United States. More than 100 members of AFA-CWA rallied at Hyatt’s headquarters in Chicago, picketing the building and delivering a letter to Hyatt endorsing the boycott.
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is pleased to announce that what it describes as ‘substantial progress’ has been made in an ongoing dispute at Egyptair. The global union intervened last Friday, 7 September, when police and security guards reportedly failed to protect striking cabin crew members at Cairo Airport (see this earlier press release).
Last year, a small and brave group of flight attendants approached the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) with a goal to become union members with rights to collective bargaining with their employer
Union officials are determined to stop forced redundancies as it’s revealed Thomson Airways is looking to cut more than 600 jobs.
Budget airline Ryanair has been rapped by a watchdog for a sexist advertising campaign after thousands complained it objectified women and undermined cabin crew’s safety role.
Employees complain request by director’s wife is ‘sexist and discriminatory’
Unionen and the Swedish branch organisation for employers in civil aviation (Svenska FlygBranschen) have been negotiating since March 2010 towards a unified agreement regulating terms and conditions for all cabin crew based and operating in Sweden. The negotiations involve 10 current agreements regulating 18 different companies. The result is intended to unite all existing agreements into one single agreement.
The story of this publication relates to a dispute that had huge implications for UNITE and BASSA members whose lives were turned upside down by the demands of the employer.