Qantas complicit in jailing of union official?
Well its good to see that AIPA has taken up the fight to apply pressure to get Shalend Scott (Air Pacific Pilot union secretary) released from jail in Fiji.
Accused of leaking documents which showed that Air Pacific contracted lawyers to create onerous labour law restrictions for the Fijian government, it is hard to believe that Scott had any official access to Air Pacific documents in the first place. He is a pilot! At worst, someone else must have been the official leak; and/or its quite possible that Scott was framed. Scott is only a pawn in this power game!
In Australia the offence would be a civil one, and certainly anyone suspected of such an act would not be jailed. This new Fijian legislation is outrageous!
Qantas owns 46% of Air Pacific, and two Qantas employees are members of the Air Pacific Board:
Narendra Kumar and Simon Hickey
Well you may have read that
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
So Kumar, Hickey and Joyce, here is your individual character test. You have a choice:
Stand up now as men and apply pressure to get Scott released, and to get his job back,
OR
Be forever condemned by your own inaction.
Hopefully you will have the guts to do the former.
Seabreeze
Last edited by Seabreeze; 10th October 2011 at 11:35.