Qantas Grounds all Flights!
Oct 30th 2011, 8:22 am
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Re: Qantas Grounds all Flights!
I agree. People can't have it both ways....everyone is attracted to Australia because of its higher wages and better terms and conditions. No one makes the connection that the stronger unions might just have something to do with this.
Julia might have to step in and nationalise Qantas - could help her flagging popularity?
Imagine the horror of being stuck in NZ or Oz and there being no airline to fly you out?
Julia might have to step in and nationalise Qantas - could help her flagging popularity?
Imagine the horror of being stuck in NZ or Oz and there being no airline to fly you out?
Oct 30th 2011, 9:02 am
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Strong unions are great if you're employed. The MWA have ensured that their members are the highest paid marine workers in the world. They have also ensured that there isn't work for everyone else as the costs are too high! They keep everyone else out of their club and hold the industry to ransom on a whim, and they are a bunch of racist buggers too.
It is very incompetent however to not be able to deal fairly with employees and to let things get this far.
How do you feel about the appropriateness of the CEO's 71% pay rise?
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Oct 30th 2011, 9:18 am
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Workers and management - it will never change. Each can't live without the other and each thinks they are worth more than the other. Every day I get grief for sitting on my arse all day in the office while they are out there sitting on their arses all day in a digger! I appreciate their skills but they don't appreciate mine, why is that...
Education I suppose...
Oct 30th 2011, 9:25 am
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There is only so much sympathy I can feel for a company that is on track to doubled its profitability this year. What the staff are asking for amounts to less than one eighth of the airlines expected profits this year.
Looking at the business as a whole the staff aren’t being unreasonable IMO.
Looking at the business as a whole the staff aren’t being unreasonable IMO.
Oct 30th 2011, 9:50 am
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Oct 30th 2011, 10:26 am
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The employers can outsource with no regard to the consumers in a country having money in their pockets to buy the goods they have outsourced overseas.
Governments place contracts overseas even though placing them for slightly more cost in the home country would mean lower social security bills. False economy.
Oct 30th 2011, 11:12 pm
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It looks to me like Qantas is trying to cut costs by pretending the two airlines are separate so they can outsource and save a bit. Fair gag if the unions won't see the employees systematically fired as Qantas rebrands itself as Jetstar (or just plain substitutes some cheaper staff).
Oct 30th 2011, 11:20 pm
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Re: Qantas Grounds all Flights!
'course and we all know that being more competative means a lower unemployment rate 
. I heard this but it was Jetstar pilots flying Qantas branded aircraft.
Either way they are back at work now and will no doubt be forced into an equitable resolution by the arbitration committee.
. I heard this but it was Jetstar pilots flying Qantas branded aircraft.Either way they are back at work now and will no doubt be forced into an equitable resolution by the arbitration committee.
