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From his balcony on the top floor of Emirates Airline’s headquarters, Tim Clark, the Gulf carrier’s president, has a bird’s-eye view of the enormous building site inside Dubai International airport.
Construction workers are scrambling to provide the airport infrastructure necessary to support Emirates’ relentless expansion. By 2013, Emirates should have the world’s first terminal concourse used exclusively for getting passengers on and off A380 superjumbos.
November 28, 2011
The campaign to support Filipino aviation workers sacked following the outsourcing of their jobs earlier this year has stepped up a gear.
Supporters of the workers, represented by the ITF-affiliated Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA),…
November 24, 2011
The ITF is condemning the decision by US government agency the National Mediation Board, to deny charges of management interference in union representation elections which took place amongst Delta airline workers last year.
ITF-affiliated union, The A…
A former flight attendant is believed to be the first person in the U.S. to settle a lawsuit against the Boeing Co. over what she claims is faulty aircraft design that allowed toxic fumes to reach the cabin, triggering tremors, memory loss and severe headaches.
November 23, 2011
Memo to the Qantas public relations team: if you mount a Twitter campaign calling for travellers’ luxury flying experiences in the middle of an unresolved industrial dispute, be aware there might be a certain amount of blow-back.
In the meantime, if you’re lost track of the various developments in relation to this landmark industrial dispute, Greg Bamber, Professor in the Department of Management at Monash University previews what’s next and gives a re-cap for The Conversation.
On a recent weekday morning João and Sebastiana Silva, a retired couple in their 80s, were at São Paulo’s domestic airport to catch their first flight to Manaus, Brazil’s Amazonian city.
November 22, 2011
Union members from around the world staged protest and other action on 16 November to show their solidarity with the workers of Australian airline Qantas. Protesters gathered outside the Australian High Commission in London as part of Qantas action day…
November 18, 2011
“Go-slow” industrial action by aviation workers in Kenya came to an end recently after the workers reached a deal with their employer.
The workers represented by the ITF-affiliated Aviation and Allied Workers’ Union and employed by the Kenya Civil Av…