Originally Posted by
Cathay Boy
I have sympathy for all working people, anybody that works for a living deserves sympathy.
However, I do not have sympathy for union hard-nosed tactics. Talk with CX and work it out. CX has already retracted the enforcement of the new rules, and to me that's a sign of good faith negotiating. I do not see why union should go ballistic, threaten to strike, and may possibly strike as soon as the 8th, and then refuses to meet with CX management through the help of Labor Department.
I can see the issues: pay cut, harder to live, etc. But on the other hand, CX is also losing money. Unions should realize every cent they squeeze out of the company the company eventually will make cuts elsewhere to make up the differences. Cut quality, cut services, cut routes, etc. At the end, everybody loses.
Do not be like American Autoworkers Union where their resistance to negotiation on cuts ultimatley is the primary reason why American cars can never be competitive or profitable.
A lot of things are not told by the media, because as we all know, CX PR department has very good relationship with the media. Some sticking point issues include:
1) CX refusal to talk about other major issue beside the swaping rules, It is CX management refuseal to talk, yet the CX PR department was quoted for telling the media that all issue are resolve except for one issue, but all the flight Attendent know this is a lie and this is a rub in the face of the union.
2) CX claim they have drop the new swaping rule, however CX want the union to sign an agreement that stated that CX will not re-introduce the now cancelled swaping rules but the union will have to accept any new propsoal introduced by the company to fix the "so call" swaping loopholes (which to the flight Attendent this is not a loophole)... So the FA union pretty much goes, ..., on one hand CX say they will never re-introduce the swaping rules and at the same time, they want the FA union to sign agreement to accept any new rules introduce by the company over the exact same issue in the future??? This is call negotiating in good faith??? Do CX think their staff is stupid??? Just like JAL has said, CX does not want to negotiate, they just want to buy themselves sometime... So I completely agree with the FA union action... If CX is clearly not negotiating in good faith, then why bother, just teach them a lesson so that next time the management will know what negotiating in good faith really means!
Finally, I do live in Hong Kong, so for me I do not want to see a strike at CX, but CX is not know to be a company that co-operate and work with their employee group... I have heard somewhere that recently during one of CX lawsuit with their pilots, the presiding judge actually told the CX lawyer that, "CX has the most pending lawsuits from their employee group out of all companies in Hong Kong, so clearly there is something fundamentally wrong with the CX human resource department or there is something wrong with the way CX management treats their employee." I just thought that was very interesting when I hear that... This pretty much tell us how CX management operated and how they treat their staff... Just my two cents!