Originally Posted by
Engineer_aus
Geeze a lot of bitter pilots on here......
Unfortunately for Australian pilots the IR model is largely adversarial.
It is standard practice to set employees against each other.
Australian employers buoyed by asymmetry, heavily favouring employer leverage, saw flying outsourced, sent to contractors or subsidiaries with gay abandon.
For the Qantas pilots, a decade was lost as "growth" at Jetstar was accompanied by stagnation and demotion.
For the Jetstar pilots, their model is at scale, the market saturated and the business faces (despite accounting opaqueness) a perennial problem of low yield and increasing unit cost.
Thus, IR roll out the next lot of contractors, subsidiary or even imported workers to place further pressure on terms and conditions.
Wash rinse and repeat.
Do engineers self fund their licences?