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Alliance Airlines Will Require Its Staff To Be Vaccinated
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Brisbane-based Alliance Airlines is making COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for all employees. The airline, which operates passenger flights for Qantas and Virgin Australia, employs around 700 people. However, not all are welcoming the vaccinate or else rule.
Alliance Airlines will make COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for its 700 odd employees. Photo: Alliance Airlines
Alliance Airlines employees face “disciplinary action” for refusing vaccinations
A report in The Australian newspaper on Sunday, May 30, first flagged the new policy. That report said Alliance Airlines employees would all need a vaccination or face “disciplinary action.”
According to Alliance Airlines, they have a duty of care to provide a safe workplace for employees and passengers. The new rule extends to contractors and their employees contracted to work for Alliance Airlines. In addition to operating on behalf of commercial airli
Virgin Australia unions plan merger to impose Bain Capital’s cost-cutting demands
The Virgin Independent Pilots Association (VIPA) and the Transport Workers Union (TWU) confirmed this month that they will amalgamate the two unions by July, subject to a vote of pilots.
Both unions have been talking up the supposed benefits for pilots and other Virgin Australia workers of the merger, but it has nothing to do with defending the jobs and conditions of airline workers.
Its real purpose is to strengthen the capacity of the union bureaucracy to prevent any opposition to the ongoing restructuring drive by Virgin to drastically slash costs at workers’ expense. This has been the agenda implemented from day one by the airline’s new owners, US private equity firm Bain Capital.