According to Taiwanese media reports, EVA Airline employees protested against too little year-end bonuses and continued to take leave yesterday (2nd) to express their anger. The labor-management deadlock has not been resolved. It is not ruled out that they will take collective leave again during the Spring Festival and the "228" consecutive holidays. Taoyuan Airlines, a subsidiary of China Airlines, which accounts for 70% of the ground handling workload at Taoyuan Airport , has also predicted that it will not rule out a Spring Festival strike. The two major airlines have a tough attitude. If they join forces to strike during the Spring Festival this year, Taoyuan Airport may be paralyzed.
EVA Airline employees took a collective leave for the second day. Yesterday, the department head not only called the employees on leave to persuade them to leave, but also mobilized about 80 emergency support manpower. In addition, EVA Airline Chairman Chen Youyu, General Manager Lin Dayuan and many other senior managers were on the front line at 6 o'clock yesterday morning to move luggage, clear cabins, and push wheelchairs. As a result of the multi-pronged approach, no flights have been canceled yet, with an average delay of 30 minutes.
However, Zhou Shengkai, consultant to the corporate union of EVA Air, said that EVA Air does not have a union and employees ask for leave voluntarily, so "the future situation is unpredictable." Due to the insistence of labor and management, the two sides have reached a deadlock and the problem has not been resolved. The same situation may occur during the following Spring Festival or even the "228" holiday. An employee of
said that EVA Air would rather spend twice the salary to find dispatch workers , with a daily salary of 2,400 yuan (NT$), but it is not willing to increase the year-end bonus. EVA Air Line responded that dispatch workers are needed to make up for temporary manpower shortages. Their wages do not include labor health insurance, pension provisions and other benefits, which is unfair compared with full-time employees. EVA Air Line still prioritizes taking care of the salary and benefits of full-time employees.
EVA Airline has not yet "detonated the bomb", and Taoyuan Airline, a subsidiary of China Airlines, is also ready to take action. It will not support EVA Airline's wave of leave requests, otherwise it will bear the consequences. It said that because it recently raised six major demands, including salary increases and fighting for night allowances, the labor negotiations broke down due to the management's tough attitude and unwillingness to communicate. It is not ruled out that a strike vote will be held after protesting at the "Ministry of Transportation" on January 6.
The airline industry admitted frankly that if they really cannot reach a consensus with flight crews and take leave collectively while pursuing a legal strike, they will repeat the mistakes of China Airlines pilots who went on strike during the Lunar New Year in 2019, and the situation will be even more difficult to deal with.
The airline industry bluntly stated that if either China Airlines or Evergreen pilots or flight attendants go on strike, they can still ask for help from the other airline. However, if the two airlines join forces and fail to fly, peach aircraft will inevitably be paralyzed. There is no other way except to find airline employees to move luggage. Flights will be delayed or canceled, and the probability of consecutive holidays during the Spring Festival will increase greatly.
(Source: Reference News Network)
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