Bahasa Malaysia Editor
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 Upset that their grievances are being ignored, Malaysia's airline workers have since their bosses dual months to terminate a share barter understanding or face protests in December.
Eight aviation workers' unions made a preference today, insisting Malaysia Airline System's (MAS) understanding with AirAsia has influenced a jobs of a little 20,000 employees in a inhabitant carrier.
"We give Khazanah [Nasional] dual months to terminate a understanding as well as lapse to a original agreement. If not, we will go ahead with our picket, that we have decided will be in early December," MAS employees' kinship (Maseu) boss Alias Aziz (picture) pronounced today, referring to a sovereign government's investment arm.
Alias told The Malaysian Insider that all eight workers' groups want MAS to buy behind a shares that have been sole to AirAsia while returning those bought from a bill carrier.
Besides Maseu, a other influenced groups are a MAS Pilots' Association; MAS Executive Staff Association; a Sabah Executive Union of MAS; a MAS Managers' Association; a Airline Working Union of Sabah; a Airline Working Union of Sarawak; as well as a Sarawak Executive Staff Committee.
Alias pronounced a groups decided in a assembly currently they will urge a International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) to protest both airlines if a understanding goes through allowing a brand new airline to emerge from their partnership.
It has been rumoured that 80 per cent of MAS staff could be changed to a brand new Sapphire airline as a result of a MAS-AirAsia deal.
MAS as well as AirAsia inked a understanding upon Aug 9, that allows a loss-making inhabitant carrier to barter a 20.5 per cent stake for 10 per cent in Asia's t! ip money -making bill flier.
The barter enabled AirAsia bosses Fernandes as well as Datuk Seri Kamaruddin Meranun to sit upon a MAS board as well as ostensibly help spin a fortunes around.
The workers' unions have accused a bill carrier's ambitious boss of receiving advantage of a loss-making inhabitant airline to fuel his personal ambitions, a latest being a acquisition of English Premier League club, Queens Park Rangers.
The inhabitant carrier will unite QPR's home jersey for a next dual seasons, while AirAsia's logo will be emblazoned upon a team's divided as well as third kits.
MAS had announced in Aug a net loss of RM527 million for a second quarter of 2011 due to higher fuel costs despite recording a improved produce as well as a nine per cent expansion in newcomer revenue from a same period final year.
This brings sum losses in a initial half of a year to RM769 million even as a airline pronounced that a profit outlook for a second half of a year appears bleak.
MAS had been doing well until a Asian monetary crisis hit in 1998, that later led to a assets being sole off to resolve a change sheets.
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