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Yes as humans are simply impersonal units of labour cost, the spreadsheet records nothing other than legal minimum enforceable amount this unit cost must be paid.
Qantas taking the unparalleled step of grounding their fleet and locking out their staff on a flimsy and curiously unchallenged pretext, broke forever any semblance of trust.
I remember when that happened and Keating tore into the Gillard Government... asked what he would have done... he said "I certainly wouldn't have referred it to the FWC for mediation... I would have just let it stay shut down for a few days or a week and let the CEO swing in the breeze for a while and I think you'd find after that time, there'd be no more dispute and no more AJ" He said the Labor Government (at the time) had "...played right into Joyce's hands when it should have given him NO comfort at all, let his little strategy collapse around him fixing the problem once and for all..."
I take it from that Mr K is no fan of AJ.