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A little birdie
Qantas will likely view FWA determination as a win. It was largely a status quo outcome the previous times Qantas was at FWA.
And this is the point - Pilots do not want this going to arbitration.
It’s worth remembering that it’s the government of the day that appoints Fair Work Commissioners who will ultimately be the ones arbitrating an outcome - and that the Government over the last 6 years is not exactly a friend of the Unions. All you have to do is look at some of the previous Ministers for Industrial Relations - Eric Abetz and Michaelia Cash (very right wing members of the Liberal Party).
If this goes to Arbitration - look for the Company to be asking for less than 3% pay increases.
Good on the JQ pilots for taking it up to the Company and arguing against this arbitrary wages policy. However I am not sure what the strategy is from here (or what it really was from the start - but that’s for another discussion) and unfortunately the pilot group may find out just how unfairly stacked the ‘system’ is in favour of big business in this country.