Originally Posted by
InZed
So for some old boy like me that hasn’t followed cabin crew unions all too closely... I understand FARSA joined Etu Union, but I’ve never heard of EMPU?
Around 2008 or 2009 the zeal 320 crew (crew who operated the airbus) felt they were not being represented well by FARSA, and they certainly weren’t. At the time FARSA really only cared about the legacy crew. FARSA was run by legacy crew. So the ZEAL 320 broke off and joined the aviation wing of the EPMU (later renamed ETU) which was at the time was led by Andrew Little. Zeal 320 was just an operating crew company - it’s only employees were the cabin crew. It no longer exists and all crew work for Air New Zealand ltd.
Project Choice rolled around. Turned out FARSA strangely enough didn’t have any money to fight it. Cut a very long story short, and FARSA ends up joining up with Etu