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AUSTRALIA DESERVES A SAFE AND SECURE AVIATION INDUSTRY

For more than 100 years the Australian aviation industry has made us proud, safeguarded our national interest, and provided safe and secure jobs for generations of Australians.

Despite our proud aviation history and enviable safety record, the industry is threatened as never before by the agenda of militant, senior management, most notably at Qantas. They are determined to undercut their own workforce with outsourced insecure jobs and reduce the standards of safety and service, which the Australian travelling public deserve and expect.

Aviation workers and their families have refused to take these threats lying down. Over the past year, tens of thousands of union members across Australia’s aviation industry have united to fight for secure jobs with fair wages and conditions, safer Australian skies and a real future for Australian aviation industry which future generations continue to be proud of.

The TWU will always stand up for secure jobs with better wages and conditions – by sticking together we will win. We will fight to build a safe and secure Australian aviation industry – that will deliver safe and secure jobs for all Australian aviation workers now and for the future. Click here to see what we are fighting for, and show your support for Safe and Secure Australian Skies here.

TWU/MUA Solidarity with Philippine Airline Workers

April 22

In an act of global solidarity the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) along with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and ITF Sydney office leafleted Philippine Airline passengers at Sydney Airport this week, highlighting the struggle of the workers who have been locked out since September 2011.

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Qantas Emirates Partnership Fails to Cater to National Interest

April 02

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ACCC Rejects Qantas Key Claims Yet Bizarrely Still Approves Deal

March 27

The ACCC has rejected Qantas’ key argument that the airline’s International Section was in terminal decline, yet today approved the Qantas/Emirates alliance and confirmed that it did not consider Australia’s national economic, security and employment interests, commented Tony Sheldon, National Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union today.

TWU Media Release, 27 March 2013

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Cobham Rewards Border Protection Pilots and Observers

January 08

Getting Cobham’s border protection pilots off their old workplace agreements and onto a far superior union collective agreement has been an important achievement.

Rick Burton, THE TWU WHEEL, official publication of the Transport Workers Union (WA Branch), Summer 2012

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More Seats - More Money

January 08

These days, when you set out to achieve an improvement in working conditions in the airline industry you have to be prepared for the long haul.

THE TWU WHEEL, official publication of the Transport Workers Union (WA Branch), Summer 2012

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