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Kaohsiung airport staff threaten strike

TAIPEI--Ground staff at Kaohsiung International Airport in southern Taiwan threatened to go on strike during the Lunar New Year holiday after the latest round of labor management negotiations over a pay rise broke down.

The talks between the management of the Taiwan Airport Service Co. (TASC) and its Kaohsiung branch trade union, failed to arrive at any agreement on a 5-percent pay hike as demanded by the union.

The TASC provides freight, aircraft cabin, passenger, ramp, and equipment maintenance services at Kaohsiung and other airports.

Cheng Ying-sheng, head of the TASC Kaohsiung branch trade union, urged the management to deal with the dispute carefully in order to prevent a possible strike that would paralyze ground services at the Kaohsiung airport during the Lunar New Year holiday, usually a peak season for air transportation.

This year's Lunar New Year holiday starts Jan. 21 and runs for nine days.

TASC said the union's insistence on a 5-percent pay rise was the major factor that led to the failure of the talks.

The company said it will hold a new round of labor-management negotiations Friday, and in case of strikes, it will send additional workers to Kaohsiung airport during the holiday in a bid to minimize the possible impact on the airport's ground services.

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