Originally Posted by
Tony the Tiler
The company has done nothing but threaten you from the very start of this whole sunrise palaver.
If you don’t sign up before the end of 2019, we won’t do Sunrise.
If you don’t sign up before the end of March 2020, we won’t do Sunrise.
And now
If you don’t sign up before the end of March 2020, we will start a greenfields.
The problem is, the first two threats didn’t work, so Allan had to up the ante. Time to really ramp up the fear.
If you’re not seeing them ALL as threats, then you’re not engaging your brain.
So that’s it, the company has the upper hand? Capitulation it is then?
I am frequently astounded at the naïveté of pilots who fail to see their own strength. The company has made a threat that will take 3 years to implement. Meanwhile, the remaining pilots – YOU -have 3 years to flex your own industrial muscle. 3 years to mount an industrial campaign of the like that Allan has never seen. You think the company has the upper hand here? Allan has very few friends left in government. As a result of the surprise grounding during the Commonwealth Heads of Government, and some of the more recent progressive campaigns, he has damaged his standing in Canberra.
The only reason the grounding worked, was because the government of the day was taken by surprise and wet their pants. Allan is not going to get his way a second time. Search for the Paul Keating interview on how the Fair Work should have handled the confected grounding.
The company will only have the upper hand if the majority of pilots believe they have the upper hand! Since the beginning of time, the masses have always had the upper hand. The only reason corporate bullies get away with bullying, is because people fail to stand up to it.
If you don’t know your own strength, you’re never going to prevail. What is you union leadership doing? Or is it another tragic case of lions lead by donkeys?
Tony, seeing as you are from Hong Kong , are you talking about the strength of the Cathay pilots or are you talking about how that strength has produced results or are you a 1989 Oz domestic pilot who is still wearing the rose coloured glasses?