Cathay flight attendants to work-to-rule over pay

The Cathay Pacific Flight Attendants Union said on Monday that it would to take industrial action over a pay dispute with the airline company’s management.

The union said after a general meeting that union members would begin a policy of work-to-rule at first, and would only go on strike as a last resort should the company refuse to listen to them.

Union chairman Dora Lai Yuk-sim declined to further discuss the group’s strategy, saying the union would announce the date of action at a time it deemed appropriate.

The union also promised to use an emergency fund to defray any expenses resulted from the industrial action.

Lai said it was forced to take action because of the unilateral decision of the management on pay adjustment.

Earlier on Monday, Cathay's flight attendants’ union called for Hongkongers’ support in its stand-off with the airline, in newspaper adverts published on Monday morning.

The ads appeared in at least two Chinese-language newspapers, before the union held an emergency general meeting on Monday afternoon to decide whether to take industrial action.