The international labour movement is demanding the urgent withdrawal of prosecutions and dismissals of those involved in the pro-democracy actions that have been sweeping across Bahrain.
The ITF has condemned tactics employed by the executive board of Kuwait Airways to delay agreement on a settlement for the company’s workers.
Workers represented by the ITF-affiliated Kuwait Airways Workers’ Union had reached a tentative settlement earlier this month, giving them the same benefits as other public sector workers; the airline is currently state-owned, but privatisation is looming.
Unionized workers of the Infraero (Brazil’s federal airport authority) will stage a 48-hour strike starting from Thursday, October 20th at 00:01 (local time) in all three Sao Paulo airports and at Brasilia International Airport.
As you know, the political situation in Bahrain is critical. The recent detention of doctors for assisting civilians during protests in the capital earlier this year, the prosecution in the military courts of teachers as well as the dismissal of many other workers have already demonstrated that Bahrain’s ruling regime cares little for justice. Transport workers are also under attack.
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.
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.
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.
The world’s most unpleasant airline? That’s not quite how they put it in the adverts.