The standoff between Jetstar workers and management continues with flights cancelled on Saturday and Sunday. Workers are set to strike again next week | pwhatch
About 20 flights were cancelled on Friday when ground crew and baggage handlers walked off the job for four hours at major airports. Another 90 flights have been cancelled on Saturday and Sunday, when pilots will take part in four-hour strikes.The Transport Workers Union said on Friday afternoon that its ground crew and baggage handler members will strike again on Thursday after Jetstar rejected its demands over a new wage deal.
A Jetstar spokeswoman said it was largely "business as usual" on Friday, after it announced on Wednesday which flights would not operate and moved passengers onto other flights. That included "being crushed, ingested or other" due to "inadequate safe work procedures", which the TWU said validated its claim that Jetstar's staff levels were "dangerously low".says Jetstar failed to ensure that a full crew of four workers and one supervisor remained allocated to an aircraft until all tasks were completed and before they moved on to work on another plane.
The Jetstar spokeswoman said that its network-wide injury statistics were on par with last year, with fewer authorised days off due to injury.
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