ALPA

Washington DC – Today, Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issued the following statement regarding two separate comments submitted by TTD jointly with the Air Line Pilots Association and the European Cockpit Association, and with the European Transport Workers’  Federation, on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) August 4, 2014 Notice […]

Washington DC – Today, Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), issued the following statement regarding two separate comments submitted by TTD jointly with the Air Line Pilots Association and the European Cockpit Association, and with the European Transport Workers’  Federation, on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) August 4, 2014 Notice […]

BEFORE THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WASHINGTON, D.C. ____________________________________________ Application of DREAMJET SAS Docket No. OST-2014-0063 for an exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 40109 and a foreign air carrier permit pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 41301 (US-EU Open Skies _____________________________________________ REPLY OF AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION (ALPA), TRANSPORTATION TRADES DEPARTMENT, AFL-CIO (TTD) AND EUROPEAN […]

[As published by David Groves in The Stand] Multinational corporations are increasingly contracting out what used to be family-wage company jobs to staffing companies to avoid unionization and gain a competitive advantage by paying substandard wages and benefits. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, the Air Line Pilots Association and other aviation unions are calling attention to […]

[As published by Anne Paylor in Air Transport World] Flight attendants and pilots from the US and Norway are joining forces in a bid to ensure that Norwegian Air International (NAI), the Irish-based long-haul subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, does not “bypass international labor laws” when it comes to recruiting crew. The Air Line Pilots […]

OSLO, NORWAY—Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) President Edward Wytkind issues this statement following a two-day unity meeting in Oslo, Norway, with U.S. and European labor leaders to expand opposition against Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) flag of convenience airline: “We took aim today at Norwegian Air’s plan to scour the globe for cheap labor and game […]

[As published by Balazs Koranyi for Reuters] Airline unions and pilots groups asked European and U.S. authorities on Wednesday to deny Norwegian Air Shuttle’s request for a new long-haul license, accusing the budget carrier of trying to avoid taxes and skirt labour laws. Norwegian this year became the only European budget airline to launch long-haul […]

By Lee Moak and Ed Wytkind We just concluded a remarkable meeting in Oslo, Norway, with our labor counterparts in Europe to accelerate a campaign against flag of convenience airlines that seek to scour the globe for low labor standards and lax rules and regulations. We gathered in Norway to make the case against Norwegian […]

[As published by Travel Weekly] If you thought the airline business was complicated by laws, regulations, treaties, bureaucrats, lobbyists and legislators, keep reading, because it could get interesting. We are referring to the story of Norwegian Air International, or “Norwegian,” a new transatlantic carrier known to agency reservations systems as DY and to the Air Line […]

[This is the translated version of the online article portion of this article, printed originally in Norwegian, and aired by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)] America’s Largest Union Will Refuse Norwegian to Fly to and From United States WASHINGTON / OSLO: America’s largest trade union, the AFL-CIO, will refuse Norwegian to fly to the United […]