“ it would appear that being forced to binding arbitration, had little downside,”
Apart from:
1. Arbitrated change from CAO48 to CAO48E industry exemption as the new Flight and Duty limits and insertion of clause 11 requiring Aipa to agree to FRMS without ‘unreasonable’ disaproval. Good luck with interpreting that one.
2. Introduction of SBLs that are now totally broken and dysfunctional such that they are easily avoided.
3. Standard pay rises that were available without millions in legal fees and red ties.
4. Introduction of redeployment - a subversion of seniority
5. Introduction of postings to replace the security/rewards of bases/localised lines.
6. Most critically: confirmation for AJ that fair work will never arbitrate a pay scale for a new type.
The wins for pilots were.........?