Headlines:
| LIAT pilots ready to take action |
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| Thursday, 26 November 2009 | |
 Over one hundred LIAT pilots are meeting in Barbados and Antigua
Thursday to decide their next move in negotiations for a new collective
bargaining agreement after 13 years.Since Monday, Chairman of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots' Association (LIALPA), Captain Michael Blackburn has been saying the pilots are ready to withdraw their services if an agreement is not reached at a meeting on December 1. LIAT's corporate communications manager Desmond Brown had responded that the company had in no way stalled the process. But Wednesday, Mr. Blackburn revealed that LIALPA was willing to go as far as Antigua's High Court of Justice, if LIAT insists on introducing three new issues to the arbitration process. The body will hold separate emergency meetings for its executive council and general membership Thursday to put a vote to members on their next course of action. Mr. Blackburn said Thursday's meeting would have no effect on LIAT's schedule, since pilots on duty would remain in the sky, and be briefed on the meeting's outcome. |