Rule changes at the ALAEA

[ellie1]

Any-one heard anything about rule changes coming at the ALAEA regarding eligibility for membership?

[ampclamp]

In what regard? Rules governing members / officials?
The assoc itself is bound by the same laws of any industrial advocacy group.

And no, I have heard nothing as yet.

[poacher2gamekeeper]

ellie 1,

Could it be to cover Flight Attendants?

Or is it to cover people running for high office that don't actually meet the criteria...

Take your pick...

Then, it could be both. :=

P2G

[Oh Me Oh My]

spoke to a couple of guys no one seemed to know too much, is it to cover the attempted changes w by CASA to alter our status := . anyone know anything more ? :confused:

[ALAEA Fed Sec]

I'll just be brief.

Our rules essentially are for us to cover LAMEs and all Forstaff employees. Changes to terminology in our industry now have persons eligable to carry out functions previously only delegated to a person licenced to certify.....

Now days, it is not necessarily called a licence. It may be an approval or just simply an authorised person. We are changing the eligibility rule so we can maintain coverage of those persons who carry out the functions that were always performed by LAMEs when the rules were registered in 1964.

A number of unions and Qantas have objected formally to the change. What makes me angry is that one of them recently signed off on a new EBA that expanded the scope of work that unlicenced Engineers could do to include functions previously only carried out by LAMEs.

Our members fought the good fight at Qf, won pay rises for all that were extended to other sections of the workforce and in order to get the same result, we were stabbed in the back in the process by having our work taken away. What goes around comes around.

cheers
Steve