Advice to PAL Strikers

The Manila Times
November  9, 1996
We The People

IT ALWAYS irks me when employees of Philippine Airlines go on strike. Just like what they did a few days ago (an illegal one at that), PAL strikers again ruined the holidays of thousands of stranded passengers.

The nerve of these employees to ask for a raise. They already receive one of the highest pay in the country and the best benefits any company could ever give. But they are not satisfied.

It is no secret that PAL is losing money and overstaffed. Its employees ought to be thankful that they still have their jobs and are being paid very well. For most of these employees, especially the flight attendants, treat passengers shabbily.

New aircraft are needed for PAL to be able to compete in the cutthroat airline industry. So these PAL employees need not yak about how management sets aside money for upgrading airplanes.

PAL employees have no right to ask for a raise and inconvenience thousands of passengers just because their demands were not met by management. I hope management terminates them and blacklists them all in the airline industry just as what was done in the USA and Australia.
These obnoxious PAL employees could very well be called PAL (palaging angal ng angal lang). To them I give this advice: Be productive first before you complain and make sure you're worth what you're asking.

EVELYN CHAN
Kalookan City