This time around, I'm trying to weigh up, is whether AJ and Tino are serious about outsourcing if the votes don't go their way,
You mean, would they do something dramatic to make an ideological point, even if it means pissing away vast amounts of money rather than being seen to be backing down?
Other than that, are we counting on AIPA and us to organise a publicity campaign to shame them into keeping jobs mainline?
It’s hard to shame someone into doing something if they’re completely shameless.
The best hope is that AIPA and QF come to some mutually agreeable compromise where everyone can claim they haven’t lost face. Otherwise you just accept that a ‘no’ vote means outsourcing, and decide which is the lesser of two evils.