Perhaps pointing to a singular industrial event is a bit too targeted but I think the point made is that the brutality and carelessness of IR within dozens of industries is appalling. The minute airline CEO's allowed the terms "efficiency" and "flexibility" to be introduced, the mental integrity of the workforce was doomed.
I can speak for one (contract) organization in saying this: The work output expected of the staff under its care is bad and getting worse. The stress and mental anguish experienced by its staff is a festering boil that shouldn't be ignored. Recreational leave is near on impossible to access due to severe staff shortages, couple this with the ever present demands for efficiency, flexibility and fear of sudden unemployment are all causing an undiagnosed depression load. Who cares? No body, not CASA, not the organization, or its overlying organization and certainly not the travelling public. While profits are up and fares are down, everyone is happy, except the people at the coalface.
If you stand yourself down due to stress you're as good as marked, therefore most suffer in silence, and while the problem is silent, there is no problem. The IR landscape of this country has a distinct odour of industrial revolution thinking.
Stay safe and look out for each other, god knows our safety driven organizations aren't.
