The ITF is initiating an international support campaign to secure the release of Said Elhairech and Mohamed Chamchati, trade union leaders in Morocco
Unions representing workers from the major airline alliances are meeting this week in Argentina to share information and develop strategic responses to developments in the industry. They will cover issues such as the implications of the proposed LAN-TAM merger on Oneworld Alliance workers and the situation at Turkish Airlines, which has raised serious concern among […]
Commenting on World Public Services Day, tomorrow, 23 June, ITF inland transport sections secretary Mac Urata said: “This is the day when quality public services are celebrated, especially by workers and their trade unions, who know what they deliver to citizens, and how investment in them creates jobs and growth.” He continued: “From railways to […]
The Representatives of ITF, PSI, IUF, ICEM, UNI, CGU and union confederations of Turkey met with the Turkish Labour Minister in Geneva on June 12. Union representatives raised a number of concerns. These included pending trade union and collective labour relations legal changes, restrictions on the right to sign collective agreements, the recent blanket ban […]
The 68th IATA Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit, was held in Beijing, from 10 to 12 June 2012, and hosted by Air China. Here are links to the news of all 3 days, from Flightglobal’s Airline Business Daily: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 It has been announced that next years AGM will be held in […]
MAS Employees’ Union (Maseu) said it would extend full support to the current management of Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS), following the cancellation of the share-swap deal between the national carrier and AirAsia Bhd yesterday. “All the staff (of MAS) are happy this happened, thanks to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. It was one […]
Air Canada is to outsource some of its aircraft maintenance work overseas after the collapse of its former maintenance unit Aveos Fleet Performance Inc. last month.
The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) once more appeals for support as it enters the third month of a lockout by Philippine Airlines (PAL) and the prospect of spending the holidays on the picketlines.