MORE DISRUPTION:The airline said that today it would have to cancel a further 59 outbound flights and 53 inbound flights, which would affect 23,200 passengers
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 22, 2019
By: Kao Shih-ching and Jason Pan / Staff reporters
EVA Airways (長榮航空) yesterday filed a lawsuit at the Taipei District Court against the Taoyuan
EVA Airways president Clay Sun, center, shakes hands with a member of the company’s ground staff to express his thanks at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday.
Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times
The union secured the right to hold a strike after 4,038 members, of whom 2,949 were EVA attendants, on June 7 voted in favor of industrial action, meeting the two thresholds of more than 50 percent of union members and 80 percent of EVA members.
However, EVA said that the union might have breached the act, as it said one of the reasons it launched the strike was the airline’s rejection of its request to employ a labor director, EVA head of legal affairs Morris Hsu (許惠森) told the Taipei Times by telephone.
According to articles 5 and 53 of the act, a strike is only permitted for disputes regarding maintaining or changing the terms and conditions of employment, Hsu said. [FULL STORY]
