AIR ASIA TIDAK PERLU KESATUAN SEKERJA

POSTED BY ADMIN ON OCTOBER 9TH, 2011

Tan Sri Tony Fernandes berkata, Air Asia tidak memerlukan kesatuan sekerja kerana syarikat gergasi penerbangan murah itu menjaga kepentingan 9, 000 pekerjanya.Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) Air Asia itu menjelaskan mengapa syarikat beliau tidak memerlukan kesatuan sekerja.“Mengapa? Kerana kita menjaga kakitangan. Anda hanya memerlukan kesatuan sekiranya pihak pengurusan tidak menjaga kepentingan pekerja,” kata Tony di dalam blognya.

Beliau menambah perkembangan kakitangan Air Asia adalah selaras dengan perkembangan syarikat.

Tony turut menyoal peranan dan keberkesanan kesatuan sekerja.

“Saya tidak pasti apa yang dibuat oleh sesetengah kesatuan. Adakah mereka bersifat demokratik dan mewakili segenap lapisan kakitangan?”

Ini kerana, menurut beliau, terdapat pemimpin kesatuan yang memegang jawatan penting di dalam kesatuan untuk tempoh lama.

“Adakah mereka ini memanfaatkan kakitangan atau diri mereka sendiri?” soal Tony.

Dialog jalan terbaik

Dalam konteks ini beliau tidak menafikan kepentingan hak golongan pekerja.

“Saya masih merasakan bahawa dialog (antara pengurusan dan pekerja) adalah kaedah terbaik untuk maju ke hadapan,” jelas Tony lagi.

Bagaimanapun, syarikat gabungan Air Asia iaitu MAS mempunyai kesatuan sekerja yang dikenali sebagai Kesatuan Sekerja MAS (Maseu) yang mempunyai kira-kira 15 000 pekerja.

Maseu membantah gabungan MAS-Air Asia dengan alasan tidak akan memberikan manfaat kepada MAS.

Maseu juga percaya pengurusan baru syarikat penerbangan itu merancang mewujudkan satu jenama baru dalam syarikat penerbangan sebagai sebahagian daripada langkah menghapuskan kesatuan sekerja.

MAS menyuarakan kekecewaan terhadap pelbagai laporan berita mengenai ancaman tindakan industri oleh tiga kesatuan dalam MAS.Menurut MAS, Maseu, Kesatuan Pekerja Penerbangan Sarawak (AWUS) dan Kesatuan Sekerja Penerbangan Sabah (ATWUS), turut dilibatkan dalam pelbagai urusan berkaitan Kerangka Kerja Usaha Sama Komprehensif (CCF).

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UNIONS IN MAS THREATEN TO PICKET

POSTED BY ADMIN ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2011

Three unions in Malaysia Airlines representing about 15,000 employees have threatened picket action over the national carrier’s share swap exercise with AirAsia.Union representatives told reporters today that they feel the deal would not benefit MAS, and that they suspect the carrier’s new management team was planning the creation of a new brand within the airline as part of a union-busting move.

“We do not agree with the collaboration or the move to establish the new airline Sapphire (under the deal),” said MAS Employees’ Union (Maseu) president Alias Aziz.

Maseu is joining the Airline Workers Union of Sarawak and Air Transport Workers Union of Sabah in threatening industrial action in the attempt to stop the share-swap from going ahead.

In an attempt to bolster the fortunes of the flag carrier, state asset manager Khazanah Nasional Berhad swapped 20.5 per cent of MAS stock for a 10 per cent stake in Asia’s biggest budget carrier AirAsia on August 9.

The swap enabled AirAsia bosses Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and his partner Datuk Seri Kamaruddin Meranun to sit on the MAS board and will ostensibly help turn it around.

Khazanah has denied that AirAsia was bailing out MAS.

Shareholders of AirAsia will get one free MAS warrant for every 10 shares in the low-cost carrier while MAS shareholders will get one free AirAsia warrant for every 30 MAS shares.

MAS announced in August a net loss of RM527 million for the second quarter of 2011 due to higher fuel costs despite recording a better yield and a 9 per cent growth in passenger revenue from the same period last year.

This brings total losses in the first half of the year to RM769 million even as the airline said that profit outlook for the second half of the year appears bleak.

Its main regional competitor Singapore Airlines, while also hit by higher fuel costs fared better with a S$44.7 million (RM108 million) net profit for the same period.

The flag carrier said its group total revenues increased to RM3.485 billion for the second quarter of 2011, or eight per cent more than the RM3.213 billion for the same quarter last year, while passenger revenue was RM2.086 billion for the same period this year compared to RM1.912 billion for the corresponding period in 2010.

Maseu secretary-general Abdul Malek Arif claimed today the union expected up to 80 per cent of the company’s staff to be transferred to Sapphire.

He said such a move would dilute the union’s membership and affect its ability to represent the employees who will no longer be represented in the new airline.

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