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Hoping the bad publicity will affect bookings and BR to give in?
Is this a generation thing or a labor-awareness thing in Taiwan? I wonder how Chairman Y.F. Chang would have handled these issues....
Any conditions on foreign cabin crews?
With people beating down the airlines' doors to become FAs, how much power does the union have?
They are trying to gain public support in case of a strike. I think this is the new strawberry generation's thing and BR mgmt. is having none of it. They've stopped with being nice and are apparently now very stringent and unforgiving(and rather "threatening" is how the union described it).
Foreign crews are not able to join the union or advocate for their rights through them, though they are all paid well in terms of their local standards.
BR actually has not hired a single FA this year, foreign or domestic. They are drastically cutting down the FA numbers and instead forcing FAs to work significantly more hours.