LABOR DISPUTE: Airlines called for advance warning of a strike from unions, while travel agencies asked that they be absolved of liability for such disruptions

Taipei Times
Date: May 08, 2019
By: Shelley Shan  /  Staff reporter

The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), travel agents and airlines have proposed ways to protect travelers ahead of a possible strike by EVA Airways flight attendants.

Members of the Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union, which consists of China Airlines and EVA flight attendants, is on Monday next week scheduled to begin voting on whether the EVA flight attendants should go on strike.

The union has about 5,700 members, of whom 3,100 are EVA flight attendants.

EVA flight attendants have said that they would not go on strike if the motion does not secure the approval of at least 2,850 union members and 2,480 EVA flight attendants.
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