The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

The Cathay Pacific Flight Attendant Union announces that it will start working according to the rules and calls on members to follow suit and strive for due treatment

2022-12-22T15:24:09.815Z


The global aviation industry is gradually returning to normal. Cathay Pacific’s flight attendant union is dissatisfied with the management’s reorganization arrangement. It was unanimously approved at the general meeting earlier.


The global aviation industry is gradually returning to normal. The Cathay Pacific Airline flight attendant union is dissatisfied with the management's reorganization arrangement. It was unanimously approved in the general meeting earlier. Depending on the labor consultation, the labor union is authorized to take any industrial action, including not excluding strikes, but it will be regarded as the last means.

The union announced at the time that it was possible to prepare actions around Christmas or the Chinese New Year.


Two weeks later, there is the latest development. Today (22nd), the union announced to its members that it will start working in accordance with the rules, and also called on members to follow the steps of the union and take practical actions to fight for the treatment employees deserve.


"Hong Kong 01" has inquired with Cathay Pacific Airways and is waiting for a reply.


▼On December 6, the Cathay Pacific Air Service Staff Union authorized the union to take the next step▼


Under the influence of the epidemic, the global aviation industry was frozen for a while. As various places returned to normal, the aviation industry gradually returned to work. The waiter was very dissatisfied.

The Cathay Pacific flight attendant union announced to its members this evening that it will start working in accordance with the rules, and also called on members to follow the steps of the union and take action to strive for the treatment that employees deserve, including adequate rest time outside the station.

However, the union did not announce an exact date of action.

Has previously been supported by members to take any action

The Cathay Pacific Airline Flight Attendants Union held an emergency general meeting earlier. At the meeting, all votes were passed to authorize the union to take the next step, and depending on the negotiation with the management later, it will decide to take any form of industrial action. Launched around the Lunar New Year.

Xiao Yongen, vice chairman of the trade union's external affairs, said earlier that any industrial action was authorized by unanimous votes of members, but the final decision had not been made at that time, and a strike was the last resort. However, she made it clear at the time that she did not want to go to this step and was still optimistic.

Former chief executive Leung Chun-ying wrote an article on social platforms after the incident, criticizing Xiao Yongen by name, saying that the union's threat to strike was disregarding the overall situation, and asked the union to withdraw the strike threat immediately, "Don't be a rat crossing the street."

▼September 26, the situation on the arrival floor of the airport on the first day of the implementation of the entry quarantine "0+3"▼


+8

According to the information, in 2011, the Cathay Pacific flight attendant union also contemplated industrial action. According to the working guidelines at that time, it suggested that employees "strictly implement" all procedures, including "carefully inspecting" life jackets, fire extinguishers and other equipment on board , to replace the practice of visual inspection, and set aside 10 minutes for safety inspection; when the aircraft is flying, it will provide services to passengers only when it is 100% safe.

Cathay Pacific's labor-management meeting Cathay Pacific said that it has improved the table replacement union: depending on the new table, the next step Cathay Pacific passenger traffic increased by 6.52 times in November Japan's Southeast Asian demand is strong, and flights to Sapporo, Fukuoka will resume in December|Cathay Pacific will resume Phuket and Nagoya flights to Hong Kong next month Express resumes flights to Jeju and Busan Cathay Pacific expects to resume 70% of passenger flight capacity before the epidemic by the end of next year Cathay Pacific resumes flights to Nagoya next month: First-class services to and from London, Paris and Tokyo will be resumed in the next few months

Source: hk1

All news articles on 2022-12-22

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.