Airlines Workers Issues
Australia: Qantas aircraft engineers vote for industrial action
By Terry Cook, November 7, 2009
About 190 professional engineers at Qantas voted by 98 percent to take industrial action after seven months of negotiations for a new work agreement failed to resolve issues over pay and working condi...
Australian government’s industrial “cop” prosecutes union over Qantas strikes
By Mike Head, November 3, 2009
The Rudd government’s Fair Work Ombudsman and Qantas are seeking fines, multi-million dollar compensation
Hearing on Buffalo air crash—schedules, conditions, pay: “a recipe for an accident”
By David Walsh, May 14, 2009
Despite company and media efforts to scapegoat the airplane’s pilots for the February 12 crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407, two days of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearings...
Australia: Rudd government and unions back Qantas as it axes 1,750 jobs
By Richard Phillips, April 20, 2009
Qantas has responded to a predicted profit freefall this year by axing 1,750 jobs from its 34,000-strong workforce and is now preparing, with union support, for a major restructuring of the company.
Safety incidents plague Australian airline
Air safety deregulation
By Terry Cook, September 22, 2008
A string of safety incidents has raised mounting questions about an underlying deterioration of maintenance and safety standards at Qantas, the privatised Australian airline.
German trade union officials attack striking Lufthansa pilots
By Jörg Victor and Ulrich Rippert, May 22, 2001
Lufthansa pilots continued their ongoing industrial action against the German airline with a 24-hour strike May 17. A Lufthansa spokesman confirmed that more than 600 of the airline's 1,100 scheduled ...
Bush bans strike by Northwest Airlines mechanics
By Alan Whyte, February 13, 2001
President George W. Bush will legally prohibit Northwest Airlines mechanics from striking if they do not reach a contractual agreement by March 13. This decision reverses a National Mediation Board (N...
Concorde—its history and tragedy
By David Walsh, July 28, 2000
Tuesday's crash of an Air France Concorde outside Paris seized the attention of people all over the world. Anyone who viewed the broadcast images of the tragedy could not but help feel horrified and s...
Safety concerns raised in aftermath of Concorde crash
By Stefan Steinberg, July 28, 2000
Details are emerging concerning the crash of Air France Concorde Flight AF 4590 on Tuesday afternoon. As the plane left the ground at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris for its scheduled flight to N...
Northwest Airlines flight attendants ratify agreement
By Cory Johnson, June 6, 2000
Northwest Airlines flight attendants ratified a new five-year agreement by a 68 percent margin last week, with some 87 percent of 11,000 members of Teamsters Local 2000 voting. The agreement provides ...
Flight attendants union granted major concessions to avoid US Airways strike
By Jerry White, April 1, 2000
Details are beginning to emerge about the concessions the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) gave to US Airways in order to reach a tentative agreement last Saturday, March 25 and avert a strike b...
US Airways and union reach agreement
Flight attendants speak on issues
By Paul Scherrer, March 27, 2000
The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) and US Airways reached a tentative agreement early Saturday morning, averting a threatened strike and shutdown of the airline.
