Union seeks financial data from Virgin Blue
The domestic flight attendants' union has written to Virgin Blue seeking cabin crew cost and fatigue data and foreshadowed that it will use good faith bargaining rules to have it provided if the company doesn't roll over.
The FAAA domestic and regional division's IR manager, John Playford, said today the union was yet to receive a reply from Virgin Blue.
The FWA has already issued a consent recommendation directing the FAAA's domestic and regional division and the airline to meet and for Virgin Blue to "genuinely consider and respond to" union proposals and to "consider and discuss any requests for disclosure of the types of information raised at the conference (costings and fatigue data)" (see Related Article).
Meanwhile, FWA Senior Deputy President Peter Richards will next Monday afternoon hold a directions hearing to deal with Virgin Blue's application to terminate the nominally expired collective agreement covering cabin crew (see Related Article).
Virgin Blue was unavailable for comment.