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Old 2nd Feb 2010, 01:45
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GoME
 
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Sure I can gladly tell you what foreigners living in Panama on behalf of the gentlemen of the union, first of all we should clarify a key point. No employee of any foreign country wants a replaced it but this is not the case, Copa Airlines recruit foreign pilots due to lack of Panamanian pilots with the skills to belong to this company, so had to resort to foreigners to continue with their growth, they are not talking about 10 pilots Foreign citizens are 50%. Now a union is supposed to be to find improvements to their partners, but in this case what they have done and plan to continue doing is to make foreigners would take away benefits that were offered from the outset instead of achieve get the same benefits for them. If you can not get something, you get to those who have it taken out. Personally I think they're losing ability to get more for their members. Another point is the case of foreign pilots who travel to their countries of origin is to visit their family or medical leave renversé and encounter characters who simply tell them that they can not travel on the plane, not because there is no space but because they do not want and excuse themselves on personal reasons and they have even said that this foreign pilot is a threat to their aircraft which is unusual. The foreign pilots in Copa Airlines feel discrimination from their fellow Panamanians.
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