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EMERGING ISSUES OF THE ITF AFRICA CIVIL AVIATION CONFERENCE, 14 – 15MARCH 2013, LAGOS, NIGERIA

  1. Aeropolitical issues:
  2. Fragmentation of the industry due to the emergence of new operators (tariff wars, uncertain future, social dumping);
  3. Privatisation of airlines and airports with significant risks on jobs and individual and general wage needs;
  4. Brain drain;
  5. Government interference in the treatment of social disputes whereby governments favour employers;
  6. Rapid and uncontrolled proliferation of e-services that will greatly affect the levels of employment in the civil aviation sector;
  7. High costs of airline tickets (licences and increased taxes).
  1. Socially:
  2. Massive job losses;
  3. Increasing precariousness in employment;
  4. Re-examining individual and collective welfare;
  5. Decline in the real purchasing power of workers;
  6. Significant risks to workers’ health.
  7. In trade unions:
  8. Membership loss;
  9. Increasing violation of the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining (unions crashing);
  10. Weak financial models;
  11. Lack of membership participation in union activities;
  12. HIV/AIDS;
  13. Wage arrears and non-payment of severance of companies in liquidation (Air Nigeria, Nigeria Airways, Air Afrique, Air Senegal International, Ghana Airways, etc.);
  14. Lack of training;
  15. Fragmentation of the labour movement in the sector;
  16. Absence of an ITF civil aviation section in several African countries;
  17. Poor communication.
  1. Challenges and work to be done:
  2. Widening the trade union domain through recruitment particularly of the youth, women and workers in the informal sector;
  3. Capacity building among trade unions through research and training;
  4. Collective bargaining for general welfare (fight against precarious employment);
  5. Improving on the participation of workers in trade union activities;
  6. Improvement of internal and external communication of unions;
  7. Campaigns against the violation of trade union rights in the civil aviation sector;
  8. Implementation of social projects (housing cooperatives, savings and loan facilities and solidarity funds);
  9. Strengthening of the ITF civil aviation sector in Africa;
  10. Strengthening trade union unity in the civil aviation sector (intercommunication among unions, civil aviation federation, natural inter-relations, etc.);
  11. Fight against HIV/AIDS;
  12. Study on the changes in the civil aviation sector in Africa;
  13. Social dialogue with regional and sub-regional institutions of governments and employers.
  14. Elected leaders:
  15. Chairperson: Zeleke Mena Alaro from Ethiopia;
  16. First vice chairperson:Soubeiga Roseline from Burkina Faso;
  17. Second vice chairperson:Hilda Anyasi from Nigeria.

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