Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association
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The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association is a trade union
in the Leeward Islands
and is registered in both Antigua
and Barbados
.
Currently, all of LIALPA's members fly for LIAT (1974) Limited, a regional airline based in Antigua, West Indies, recently privatised from the Caribbean Governments.
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
in the Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands
The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies. They are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. As a group they start east of Puerto Rico and reach southward to Dominica. They are situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean...
and is registered in both Antigua
Antigua
Antigua , also known as Waladli, is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish and was named by Christopher Columbus after an icon in Seville Cathedral, Santa Maria de la...
and Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
.
Currently, all of LIALPA's members fly for LIAT (1974) Limited, a regional airline based in Antigua, West Indies, recently privatised from the Caribbean Governments.