Justin is quite correct. To believe that the FWC will deliver you a wonderful new EA is delusional.
Look at the background of the 6 (yes 6) new FW Commisioners the Liberal government just appointed. They are no friend of the working man and will be very sympathetic to Qantas’s claims.
The attacks on the new AIPA president are utterly baseless. An appreciation of the business realities of an airline is an
asset to a pilot union president not a liability. Pontificating about what we should be getting while being ignorant of the wider reality of the business environment does not make a good leader.
One can acknowledge the business environment and still fight to improve our terms and conditions.
And to the claim that he did not even mention the pilot shortage, well perhaps it needed to be written in simpler english for you.
It should also be stated that at some stage, perhaps inevitably, we will see the labour market effects of a relative decline in pilot supply filter through in Australia, although this may still take some time to materialise.