DOLE Order Vs PAL Flight Attendants Denounced; Workers Now Await Noynoy’s Action Published on October 9, 2010

 DOLE Order Vs PAL Flight Attendants Denounced; Workers Now Await Noynoy’s Action

Published on October 9, 2010

Now that the assumption of jurisdiction order has taken away the flight attendants’ right to strike, they are left with no recourse but to appeal to the media and the Filipino riding public “to join us and await how this new government will resolve the labor dispute.”

By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – The unprecedented strike planned for early November this year by the union of Philippine Air Lines (PAL) flight attendants was stopped from even taking off by the PAL management and the labor department, after the latter acceded to PAL’s request for it to assume jurisdiction over the three-year labor dispute. The assumption of jurisdiction (AJ) order legally prevents the union from further holding protest actions and, most particularly, a strike.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz warned the flight attendants that if they push through with the planned strike, it will be “considered illegal” and the strikers will run the risk of sanctions, including dismissal.

The Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) decision to assume jurisdiction over the dispute has come as no surprise — for weeks PAL president Jaime Bautista has been announcing that no strike would happen among members of Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines (FASAP), the union of PAL flight attendants, because “PAL will ask DOLE to assume jurisdiction.”

The issuance of the AJ, announced ahead of the scheduled last-ditch mediation talks between PAL and FASAP, is being criticized by the labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement) as “directly responsible for the collapse of the last-ditch mediation talks” between the two parties..... MORE


Source:  Bulatlat.com

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