AASA calls on unions to ease aviation strikes
The Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) calls on unions and management in the air transport sector to apply cool heads and to explore all options available to them to avert a secondary strike which could perpetrate a national crisis. "Our sector is an invaluable asset to the country and vital to our already fragile economy and those of the entire region," says Chris Zweigenthal, AASA CEO.
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The air transport and tourism industries represent around R140bn in gross value added to South Africa’s economy and account for 3.2% of the country's GDP. It also supports about 472,000 jobs and their extended families, whose livelihoods, directly and indirectly, would be impacted across the entire economy.
"While AASA and its members will always defend the Constitutionally-enshrined right to strike, any secondary, or sympathy, action will cause severe harm to our economy and, by implication, to all South Africans," concludes Zweigenthal
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