Chapter 149 Strike escalates

At Kai Tak International Airport, many Cathay Pacific air service personnel went on strike and sent representatives to negotiate with Cathay Pacific. The persuasion of many managers was invalid and they could only wait for the negotiation results of the company's senior management and flight attendants representatives.

The negotiation location is at the Swire Building in Central.

"Our requirement is very simple. Cathay Pacific must recruit enough staff. Please pay extra for overtime work!" said a flight attendant wearing a red suit.

Another negotiator added: "The company also has to pay medical expenses to employees who are seriously damaged due to excessive fatigue!"

"What else?" John Schwaiya sneered.

John Shi Huaiya sat condescendingly on the backrest of the office, while the delegates who came to negotiate did not even arrange seats for them. It was obvious that the boss was talking to his subordinates, not like the negotiations between labor and capital.

With Shi Huaiya's sneer, several bodyguards who stood behind him, who were like wolves and tigers, stood forward and stared fiercely at the negotiator present. Perhaps there was a bodyguard's fierce gaze that still had a lustful smell, which made the five weak women feel frightened.

The negotiator's scalp was tingling, his momentum was weak, and his tone became weaker, and he said, "Also, I think the new uniform of Cathay stewardess is more old-fashioned than that of Hong Kong Dragon. I hope to redesign it!"

“That’s all?”

"Yes!"

John Shi Huaiya suddenly shouted: "Recruiting personnel? Don't you need to pay new employees' salaries? Your salary is higher than that of ordinary office workers. It is natural to work longer, and there is no overtime pay. You won't consider any overtime pay in the future! Well, that's it! Because your strike this time has caused huge losses to the company, now five of your negotiators have been fired by Cathay! From now on, you no longer have to worry about the problem of overwork! "

"Security guard, now you'll get them out. They have nothing to do with Swire Group and Cathay Pacific in the future!" John Shi Huaiya thought about the strike of the air service ladies, which prevented dozens of flights from taking off, and her heart was bleeding.

John Shi Huaiya watched them leave and said to herself, "In Chinese, this is called killing a chicken for monkeys? Are you right?"

The bodyguards quickly said, "That's right!"

When several negotiators in tears returned to the airport, they brought the results of the negotiation to other Cathay Pacific air service staff.

News of the firing of five negotiators reached all Cathay air service staff, further arousing public outrage.

In the hot sun, an air service staff with talent for speech was pushed to the front desk to give a speech, inciting, cheering and encouraging strikers.

"As we all know, the normal work required by most countries in Hong Kong and even the international community is 8 hours of work, and extra overtime pay is required for more than 8 hours. However, Cathay Pacific always forces us to work for them step by step for longer time! From 10 hours, 12 hours, to 14 hours, some employees even worked for 18 hours and were seriously damaged in health and fainted!"

"We sent negotiators to get our legitimate interests through negotiations. But we failed! Negotiators were fired, and Swire Consortium threatened us with dismissal, but did not make any efforts to improve our working environment! We are humans, not domestic animals, so we reject any unfair treatment..."

"We need to strike and let the Swire Consortium and Shi Huaiya family feel the losses in order to get the legitimate benefits we deserve!"

After several days of organization, starting on June 2, a larger strike began.

Not only air service personnel, but even ground crew members joined the strike. You should know that Cathay Pacific ground crew members were the leader in the strike in the 1980s.

In 1981, 1,500 ground staff members at Cathay Pacific organized a three-day strike due to salary problems. During this period, all passengers' luggage did not need to be overweight, and even if their luggage was overweight, they would not have to pay surcharges. The freight department also lacked people to transport goods onto the plane, which seriously affected both passenger and freight. Due to insufficient staff, the investor attracted ground staff who did not strike to work overtime with three times their salary and dispatched administrative staff to share the work. Since the salary problem did not increase significantly afterwards, the dissatisfaction of the ground staff at Cathay Pacific has been accumulating.

More than 3,000 air service personnel, plus 1,500 ground crew members' massive strikes completely paralyzed Cathay Pacific passenger flights and cargo planes. Cathay Pacific's profits accounted for more than half of Swire Group in the 1980s. Although due to the certain increase in oil prices and the rapid growth of Cathay's profits in real estate and other industries, Cathay's profits gradually accounted for only about 40% of Swire Group's total interests.

However, no matter what, Cathay Pacific is the core of SPK, a hen laying golden eggs.

The Cathay Pacific strike suffered heavy losses for Swire Foreign Company.

For other airlines, the longer the Cathay Pacific strike, the better. Cathay Pacific is not open and has its own business office. Most passengers do not care about changing flights from other companies.

Among them, Hong Kong Dragon, based on Hong Kong, benefited the most, and for a time, Dragon Airlines' business grew exponentially.

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However, as the business becomes increasingly busy, Hong Kong Dragon's employees have also begun to experience instability. After all, although Hong Kong Dragon is constantly recruiting new employees, Hong Kong Dragon originally had only 8 aircraft. Now, there are nearly 60 aircraft, and most of the newly recruited employees need training and cannot start work immediately.

In fact, most ground staff and air service staff in Hong Kong Dragon work overtime are comparable to Cathay Pacific. However, the salary of Hong Kong Dragon employees is about 30% higher than that of Cathay Pacific, and Zhang Bixuan paid enough overtime pay and sent people to comfort the employees in a timely manner, so Hong Kong Dragon did not strike.

At this time, Cao Qiyong and Zhang Bixuan began to try every means to increase their manpower and take the opportunity to seize the Cathay Pacific market.

"Or, let's dig out Cathay's corner. It seems that Cathay's employees are mostly experienced, and it seems that Cathay's training also took a lot of effort!" Zhang Bixuan said.
Chapter completed!