Discounted air freight rates with most commercial carriers. Over 90 years of combined experience in flower transportation. He said instead CAL was employing fresh, inexperienced persons to become flight attendants. Our goal is to provide the most cost-effective and efficient delivery of flowers and greens from your shippers to you. "Yet flight attendants with six-month contracts are still in the dark as to whether they will be extended or offered permanent contracts," argues Gayle. In the case of flight attendants, Asbjornsen also stated in the CAL release that in March 2011, the airline began filling 75 vacant positions for cabin crew. In the meantime, the pilots have put in a claim for improved conditions of employment, "but there has been no meeting since the claim went in," said Gayle. Up to two years ago, there were more than 150 pilots employed to the former national carrier.
It's those jobs that they are filling," stressed the JALPA representative.
They are just replacing people who have left. "It's not new jobs they are filling because of the merger, so a statement like that is disingenuous. The communications director's statement that the jobs were available was also tagged as "disingenuous" by a JALPA representative. Since the takeover, the pilots' employer changed from 'CAL JAM' to 'CARIBAL', "and the name (of their employer) may change again", asserts Gayle.
"However, they only just regained bargaining rights, which they have lost twice since CAL took over." He said some 86 Jamaican pilots, who were forced to take a 30 per cent pay cut during the takeover in May 2010, have remained under the Trinidad-based umbrella organisation. "The fact that those vacancies have not been filled is a clear indication that skilled pilots were not applying because of the uncertainty," said Gayle. 1 Navy, Airlines, Private Flyers PES Who Started This Argument Anyway in Disagree on S. In a press release last week, she said that vacancies were still open for Air Jamaica pilots, even after employing some in December 2010.Īsbjornsen was responding indirectly to a Sunday Gleaner story which stated that CAL had plans to cut some 300 jobs. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.Īir Jamaica's shortage of pilots was highlighted by CAL's director of corporate communications, Laura Asbjornsen.
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