Having close associations with several in 'senior roles' in HR/IR one thing is universal; They assume unlimited supply in most industry strategy. I would digress but a big part of over the top immigration levels is to stop organised labour leveraging supply shortage for better terms and conditions.
It is also a very dark art, where vulnerability, perceived status and loyalty are leverage points.
As we have stated repeatedly, the IR/HR model at Qantas is at best 'accommodating.' That means the unions are there, because statute allows it, not because the company want it. As such at every turn, union input is not welcomed or sought out. To our mind, it appears the unions
believed things had changed, perhaps because the words were different.
For whatever reason and it may be as simple as they are very aware of a supply shortage, that the goading for a conflict is seen as the only strategy they really know how to execute.
The beauty of this is that the pilots are about to completely control the situation in an industrial sense without having to apply for industrial action and its all because airlines think they are invincible. The airlines have effectively autofarked themselves. Hillarious!!!
Wow, can we have Oldmeadow back please? At least his strategy made some kind of sense...
Without unlimited supply they simply do not understand that the model must change, hence what appears a double down...
Pilots need do nothing in response to the goading as it is
limited supply and their own lack of strategic management oversight with respect to people and capital responsible for this..