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noticed this in the news today:
1,000 stranded in Fiji
A walkout by Air Pacific workers is jeopardising Fiji's tourism business.
About 1,000 tourists have been stranded in Fiji, where the main tourism and sugar industries have only just started to recover from the damage caused by a coup in May 2000.
Air Pacific reported flights to Tonga, Samoa, Brisbane and Sydney were cancelled, with one to Los Angeles under threat.
Managing director John Campbell said talks will be held with the government before the airline sits down to sort it out with the union.
Air Pacific and the Federated Airline Workers Association have been in talks for a month. But up to 80% of the airline's workforce, including cabin crew, engineering staff, sales and marketing and cargo workers have been reporting in sick during the past week.
The union secretary Attar Singh says a strike planned for July 12 had been delayed due to a Africa-Pacific-Carribean leaders' summit last week and the workers agreeing not to embarrass the Pacific nation.
"But it seems Air Pacific has failed to keep its side of the bargain for a pay rise for the union members, that is why we are on strike," Singh said.
Fiji attracts around 400,000 tourists a year - mainly from New Zealand and Australia.
© Reuters
1,000 stranded in Fiji
A walkout by Air Pacific workers is jeopardising Fiji's tourism business.
About 1,000 tourists have been stranded in Fiji, where the main tourism and sugar industries have only just started to recover from the damage caused by a coup in May 2000.
Air Pacific reported flights to Tonga, Samoa, Brisbane and Sydney were cancelled, with one to Los Angeles under threat.
Managing director John Campbell said talks will be held with the government before the airline sits down to sort it out with the union.
Air Pacific and the Federated Airline Workers Association have been in talks for a month. But up to 80% of the airline's workforce, including cabin crew, engineering staff, sales and marketing and cargo workers have been reporting in sick during the past week.
The union secretary Attar Singh says a strike planned for July 12 had been delayed due to a Africa-Pacific-Carribean leaders' summit last week and the workers agreeing not to embarrass the Pacific nation.
"But it seems Air Pacific has failed to keep its side of the bargain for a pay rise for the union members, that is why we are on strike," Singh said.
Fiji attracts around 400,000 tourists a year - mainly from New Zealand and Australia.
© Reuters
