The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is calling on international aviation authorities to investigate allegations that Turkish Airlines (THY) is playing with safety by flying airplanes with insufficient or unqualified crew in order to get around a strike by THY workers protesting at unfair sackings. The Hava-Is union, which represents THY workers, went on strike […]
The ETF strongly supports the strike, organised by all Belgian unions defending the Swissport ground handling workers at Zaventem airport, which started on Sunday 12 May 2013. This strike is the result of loss of jobs, increase of work pressure, bad working conditions and no respect of the collective agreements and a complete lack of […]
Since Sunday 12th of May all workers of Swissport handling decided to go on strike. In September Swissport bought Flightcare. Immediately after the takeover, Swissport wanted to increase the flexibility of the workers. Swissport didn’t accept that in the Belgian way of working and social dialogue you need to respect collective bargaining agreements and you […]
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. […]
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 […]
ITF Civil Aviation affiliates participated en force at the Global Dialogue Forum on the Effects of the Global Economic Crisis on the Civil Aviation Industry. The forum was held at the International Labour Office in Geneva, from 20-22 February 2013. The workers delegation consisted of civil aviation affiliates from over 30 countries, and they were […]
The nation’s flight attendants will gain workplace health and safety protection from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under a proposed new policy announced by OSHA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The unexpected climbdown was prompted by a decision to look into ways of encouraging airlines to cut their emissions