Airlines

We appear to be heading for the biggest airline industry blue in two decades as pay and conditions negotiations get underway with Qantas.

Our members have become fed up with being told to tighten their belts a [ … ]

The bigger the vehicle you drive the higher your rate of pay and I don't see why it should be any different for airline pilots.

Unfortunately Skywest management see things differently. Skywest have a leasing a [ … ]

Strange things are also happening at Cobham Aviation Services, also known as National Jet Systems. They supply all the aircraft and pilots for Qantas Link, who service domestic routes, mainly to regional centre [ … ]

The TWU faces an uphill battle to improve the wages and working conditions of our members at Toll Dnata but we are up for the fight.

The company provides airport ground services for various international airli [ … ]

Our agreement covering members at Qantas Ramp, Cargo and Q Catering will expire at the end of June and trouble in the airline industry could be brewing. In preparation for negotiations with the company we are c [ … ]

The death of Phillip Walton on New Year's Day came as a terrible shock to his workmates at Skywest and the Transport Workers Union. The veteran airplane pilot died tragically while riding his new Ducati motor b [ … ]

‘Who wants to be branded a scab for the rest of their life' asks RICK BURTON

Australia Air Express failed in a desperate bid to scuttle a determined campaign by its drivers and ground staff for higher wages. T [ … ]

The pilots' committee at Skywest Airlines has pulled
off a pretty impressive outcome in the latest round of pay negotiations with the company.

For the past decade pay rises in the airline industry have been no [ … ]

The appointment of 16 new permanent positions on the ramp at Qantas was music to the ears of our TWU president Mark Bebich.

"It has been a quite a while since the last batch of part-timers were given fulltime [ … ]

With all the mining activity up North, traffic coming in and out of the Karratha Aiport has grown at a rapid rate. Unfortunately the wages and regional allowances of ground staff at the town's airport haven't e [ … ]