SIT-IN PLANNED: The Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union said the issue of differential treatment remains unresolved even after the union negotiated with EVA for two months

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 16, 2019
By: Shelley Shan  /  Staff reporter

Members of the Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union are to hold a 24-hour sit-in in front of the Ministry of Labor on Thursday next week to protest EVA Airways’ treatment of flight attendants following a 20-day strike that ended in July.

The airline’s flight attendants launched the strike through the union on June 20. Before the strike, the company warned airline employees in a notice that it would need to cancel staff discount tickets if a strike occurred, but that flight attendants willing to work during a strike would still receive discount tickets.

On July 6, the airline and the union signed a collective agreement stating that negotiations over discount tickets would begin within two months after the end of the strike.

Four meetings have so far been held, but no deal has been reached.    [FULL  STORY]