Global struggle for airline workers rights-September 27 World Day Of Action Against Outsourcing

Global struggle for airline workers rights-September 27 World Day Of Action Against Outsourcing
Published 9 September 2012 
http://www.aawl.org.au/content/global-struggle-airline-workers-rights

Airlines are seeking to impose low wages and poor conditions through casualisation and outsourcing. They seek to reduce costs and maximise profits like corporations in other industries. Airlines use their global reach to move operations and jobs around the world and bypass union struggles that way. Airline workers also have a global reach, and they are coordinating their struggles. On 30 August aviation workers took solidarity action against sackings in Amsterdam, Tokyo, London, New York and Brussels in support of Turkish Airlines workers. On 31 August a strike for wages by Lufthansa cabin crew union UFO disrupted flights in Frankfurt and affected airports throughout Europe. Many airline unions are fighting outsourcing and on 27 September an international day of action will support the rights of all airline workers, giving particular support to the brave unionists at Phillippine Airlines, locked out for 12 months, the Turkish Airlineworkers who were dismissed, and workers at Qantas who are fighting a company restructure that aims to destroy their rights.