Political unrest in Fiji has the Service and Food Workers Union asking Air New Zealand to abandon plans to outsource clerical jobs there.

The union claims Air New Zealand has been restructuring union members' jobs as it works to secure a contract with an outsource provider.

Service and Food Workers Union spokeswoman Jill Ovens says Air New Zealand tried to outsource jobs there a few years ago, but had to change plans because of political unrest.

She says they should review the whole proposal to outsource, and bring the work back inhouse.

She says the whole process has been a shambles and Air New Zealand should have never tried to change things.