Perhaps the entire Qantas group needs to look at returning the missing 4.5% base pay lost to the entire EBA based work force (due 18 month pay freeze) if they want to maintain the 3% wages policy. Management have obtained quite a bennefit by going against their own 3% policy, and according to the financial review, the staff are rightly so requesting for a return on their investment as did management after bragging about years of record profits.
To be fair they did offer some blood money to go towards compensating the staff with turn around cash bonuses, but that still doesnt cover the lost amount. Let them increase the base pay and deduct what they have paid to make it fair and transparent (but needs to be back dated to the time in whice the pay freeze was applied).