Chile announces end of airport strike: Lan promises additional flights but does not discard delays

Monday, December 21st 2015 - 07:44 UTC

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Chile's Defense Minister announced the government and workers tied to the civil aviation authority reached an agreement Sunday, ending a four-day strike that forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights and left thousands of passengers stranded. Read full article

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roray
The Unions Suck as to strike of an airline should be unlawful as it provides a service for all the people. The Union leaders & their members are useless; fire them and replace them with people who want to work!
Dec 21st, 2015 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Klingon
@1 My thoughts exactly
If you don't like your job or pay, go find another one!
Dec 21st, 2015 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Clyde15
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Sound good until you examine it. So you can go out in the street and recruit qualified air traffic controllers ..... a job that takes about 3 years of intensive training and then you have to be licenced like a ship's master .
If you sack them, then no civil aircraft can fly in or out of Chile until suitably qualified staff are found to replace them OR are trained . The trainers will have been sacked so who trains the new recruits ?

What you are saying is that any worker providing a public service (define) - should be forbidden to strike. In effect, their employer can do anything they want with them, lower their salaries, pensions, increase their working hours and over-ride health and safety issues. The employees have no redress other than to except it. Workers out side this group can do what ever they want to disrupt business.
This smacks of a dictatorship.

I have no idea of the legitimacy of the grievance but no one strikes for the fun of it.
Dec 21st, 2015 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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