Do you really believe these guys will bet their personal and professional reputations on a bluff such as this? Let’s assume they have and their bluff is called, how do you thing the Power of the Qantas IR machine is now looking? They have now left themselves open to every Union with in Qantas. Hard to believe they would set themselves up like this. These guys have form, and as has been proven in the past they will not blink at spending a fortune to get their way industrially.
This.
If they backflip on this threat, then every other Unionised worker in Qantas has no reason to believe any of their threats ever again.
I dont like it, but the ball is largely in Their court.