DISRUPTION: A total of 8,628 passengers were affected by 16 canceled international flights, the airline said, but 14 were unaffected, as were all its domestic passengers
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 21, 2019
By: Lee Ya-wen, Kao Shih-ching and Shelley Shan / Staff reporters
EVA Airways (長榮航空) flight attendants yesterday went on strike after a round of employer-
Striking EVA Air flight attendants hold a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
The main sources of contention between the carrier and the Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union remained a proposal to raise the daily allowance for flight attendants and an appeal, dubbed the “anti-freeloader clause,” by the union that non-union employees be barred from receiving benefits that the airline promises the union in negotiations.
EVA officials took a hard stance and refused to budge on the two items, issuing responses that were identical to those given two years ago when the union first raised the issues.
Citing the airline’s “unreasonable distribution” of revenue, union standing director Lee Ying (李瀅) said that EVA employees who have stuck with the airline through times of hardship, such as in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the US, and the 2008 to 2009 global economic crisis, have not been allowed to taste the fruits of the company’s steadily growing revenue over the past several years. [FULL STORY]
