Is PAL famous and influential all around?
Australian Air Line Grounded by PAL employees, er… Qantas Management
Bangkok transport workers’ unions that ousted their government (Prime Minister of Thailand Premier Samak Sundaravej resigned during the unions’ general strike) have been upstaged by PAL and Qantas, the more recent destabilizers of air and other form of transport. Unfortunately for Qantas’ three big unions, their own Prime Minister in Australia H.E. Julia Eileen Gillard did not resign like Sundaravej! Maybe she really didn’t feel she need to, hmmm?
The Philippine Air Lines, er… Qantas Air Ways Unions struck around the eve of Halloween in Sydney, Australia forcing the airline to lock out its employees and shut down international and domestic operations.
Management militancy caused PAL, er… Qantas to lose revenues and expenses to the tune of 68 million Australian dollars or 72.5 million in U.S. dollars.
In the Philippines, when the PAL airline union went on protest, their employer, the Philippine Air Lines, suffered an involuntary or forced grounding of all its aircraft. Unlike Qantas however, it was Qantas that grounded its own aircraft and operations. But it makes me ask the question whether PAL employees are able to influence and sway foreign unions to protest. So far, it says a lot that the PAL strike did not make President Benigno Aquino resign as well! Just kidding. 
I really have to find out if the PAL employees and Qantas labor unions are talking to each other. If so, have they agreed that the Qantas unions should cause the shutting down or lockout of all Qantas operations?
Very intriguing.
