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Union agreement unites low cost airline workers across South East Asia
5 September 2007
 |  |  view larger image | | | Kuala Lumpur International Airport, low cost carrier terminal [Photo courtesy of GFDL, Marcusaffleck] | |
Trade unions in Malaysia have agreed to cooperate to help support workers at a low cost Malaysian airline.
The two ITF-affiliated unions, Malaysian Airline System Employees’ Union and Airod Employees’ Union, yesterday forged a memorandum of understanding with two other unions. The agreement, which was signed at a meeting in the Malaysian city of Petaling Jaya, will help to connect employees of Air Asia, with colleagues from other South East Asian countries where the airline operates. By working together to improve workers’ terms and conditions, the unions will create a more level playing field for aviation in Asia.
In a letter to the union congratulating them on the signing of the agreement, ITF General Secretary David Cockroft said: “Air Asia workers now have a place where they are taken care of. A contact listening to their questions and providing answers, and willing to support a collective voice and improve work rules and wages.”
He added that he believed that collaboration to improve workers’ terms and condition was “the only way forward for a prosperous aviation industry in the region and indeed worldwide.”
The ITF has created a website to help support Air Asia employees: www.AKstaff-connect.org
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