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Flight attendant Allesandra Cocca has claimed she was wrongly dismissed from her job while stationed at Ryanair’s Norwegian based at the Rygge Airport south of Moss. Cocca revealed details of what it’s like to work for Ryanair – how new employees start off in debt to the airline because they’ve had to pay for their […]
The dispute between Alia Company/Royal Jordanian Airlines and the ITF-affiliated General Trade Union of Workers in Air Transport and Tourism (GTUWATT) ended on Monday in Jordan following the signing of an agreement at the Ministry of Labour.
The agreement contains significant wins for the union, including a new salary scale system, which will be implemented and back-dated to 1st July.
Members and supporters of the ITF affiliated Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) held a protest rally at the Department of Justice (DOJ) on 16 August 2013 as union leaders filed an administrative complaint against assistant prosecutor Diosdado Solidum, Jr. IPALEA’s complaint demanded the immediate suspension of Solidum. While the union welcomed the filing of separate […]
ITF affiliate Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) called for the government to immediately suspend assistant state prosecutor Diosdado Solidum following his arrest for extortion last Thursday, 10th August. PALEA also demanded the court case Solidum had worked on against 241 of their members be dismissed.
The group claiming to represent Ryanair pilots has had its Facebook and Twitter accounts removed. The Ryanair Pilot Group says the Facebook page was shut down last week and the group’s Twitter account was removed this week with no explanation. But it coincides with the low cost airline trying to secure all social media pages […]
Seventeen women civil aviation workers from ITF affiliates worldwide including pilots, cabin crew, mechanics, baggage handlers and air traffic controllers participated in a leadership programme for women trade unionists in Esher, UK last week. It was co-designed and delivered by Alison McGarry, ITF women’s coordinator and Dr Elaine Bernard, executive director of Harvard Labour and […]
On 2 August 2013, just before the start of the German football season, Inge Höger, a German politician who represents the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the German parliament Bundestag and Andrej Hunko, a German MP of the Left party for Aachen, sent a joint letter to the president of Borussia Dortmund, asking him to […]
ITF-affiliated union ACV/CSC TRANSCOM declared strike action may go ahead if Belgian airport privatisation ignores workers’ demands. When French company Egis takes over Ostend and Antwerp airports at the beginning of 2014, over 200 airport workers stand to lose out directly. Privatisation will have an indirect affect on over 2300 workers, the Belgian National Bank […]