Union members suggest the dispute with airline Far Eastern Air Transport highlights the lack of protections afforded to employees.
The News Lens
Date: 2017/11/20
By: David Green
A video that accuses Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) of a litany of management failures
Credit: FAT Labor Union
including negligence of safety issues and sexism, has gone viral amid an ongoing legal dispute between the airline union and management.
The video, which has garnered almost half a million hits on YouTube, was put together as a last resort by employees fed up at having their complaints and requests for feedback ignored, union officials said.
“We wanted to show the unacceptable conditions we were working under and how the company was passing off blame on staff,” said Linda Wei, 24, secretary general of the Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union (TFAU).
The video alleges that flight attendants were repurposed as hostesses at functions, payroll terms were changed without notice or explanation, and that staff complaints over being forced to work in unsafe or poorly maintained aircraft were ignored.
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