Budapest, Hungary: Strikes causes delays at airport

Rail workers had been staging a strike which has reached its 6th day. The strike is in support of higher wages. The strike initially caused delays but brought almost all trains to a halt on Monday (December 15th 2008).
There are separate strikes at the airport too – “Separately, a strike by two unions at Budapest [...]

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Greek state transport strike brings Greece to a halt

As blogged earlier, Greece’s largest union, GSEE (General Confederation of Greek Workers and in Greek – Γ.Σ.Ε.Ε) called for a 24 hour strike on October 4th 2008 (today) after the Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis unveiled plans to privatize Olympic Airlines.
From CNN -
Public transport — including the Athens metro, state railway services
and city buses — also [...]

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Update: Olympic on Sale, Employees Strike!

Earlier I blogged about Greece’s flag carrier going private. The conservative Greek government is trying to privatize a number of public utilities services like Greek Railway
Organization (OSE), Olympic Airlines and the Greek Post Office. As a result, in protest the General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GSEE) has announced a 24 hour nationwide strike on [...]

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V Australia postpones Launch

V Australia, Virgin Blue’s long-haul offshoot, was supposed to launch its service from Sydney to Los Angeles on December 15th, but due to the strike at Boeing headquarters has forced the launch until February of next year!
The airline has suspended advanced sale of tickets for travel December 15 2008 to February 28th 2009.
The strike is [...]

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Boeing vs Airbus reasons to strike on Business Week

BusinessWeek has an article today on the employee situations at Airbus and Boeing.
The article summary is such (please do read it with the interesting comments) -There are two companies A and B
Company A

Struggling Financially
Average raise for employees this year – 1.5%
Plans to eliminate 1 in 5 jobs

Company B

Recently offered 11% raise over the next [...]

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Pilots Strike Again: Luftansa cancels 990 Flights

Last time pilots strike at Lufthansa over pay caused 44 flight cancellations. This time the strike caused to ground a quarter of the flights with 990 cancellations (465 domestic and regional flights on July 22nd and 525 flights today on July 23rd 2008). Lufthansa is offering the affected passengers to rebook on other flights or [...]

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Lufthansa: Worker strike causes 44 flight cancellations

Luthansa (or Deutsche Luftansa AG), flag carrier of Germany and second largest airline in Europe, canceled 44 flights and delayed many more after its workers in Frankgurt, Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne walked off the job to press for higher pay raise. Lufthansa has earlier offered 5.5% raise in two steps instead of the union’s request [...]

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Air Europa: Pilots call for strike

The pilots’ union at Air Europa, Palma based Spain’s third largest airline, have called a strike from May 5th to 9th 2008 and then every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in June. The union hopes to force the management to respect their 2001 agreement where they pledged to use Air Europa pilots if the company [...]

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Updated – Bad Weather or Strike for Chinese Airlines’ Pilots?

Pilots flying for Yunnan Airlines, a unit of China Easter Airlines are suspected of staging a rare strike earlier this week. Chinese Eastern Airlines, Shanghai based Airlines, announced that pilots involved will be penalized if found to have acted on grievances. The media reported that the pilots at Yunnan Airlines were protesting about their pay [...]

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