Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-08-07

A strike by staff at China Airlines in 2016 over poor working conditions

Representatives of flight attendants unions protested outside the Presidential Office in Taipei on Tuesday. (Photo by CNA)

and benefits led to the management agreeing to the strikers’ demands. But two years later, the airline’s employees union feels conditions have still not improved.

Representatives of flight attendants unions protested outside the Presidential Office in Taipei on Tuesday. Two years after a staff strike at Taiwan’s flagship carrier China Airlines, they claim President Tsai has not followed up on promises she made at that time to ensure the rights of flight attendants.

Huang Hui-chen of the China Airlines Employees Union said President Tsai’s pledges of reform at China Airlines have not been kept, whether in regard to flight attendants having to work in perilous weather conditions or putting interns to work on flights.    [FULL  STORY]