Let's hope AIPA come into those negotiations a little more prepared next time. They have 3 years to come up with a trump card.
How can they given the nature of the information asymmetry?
Capital can prepare it's entire game plan in complete secrecy, having considered every path along the decision tree & prepared every contingency before releasing its plan. The fAIR Work Act essentially limits any variability and removes the unforeseen options available to employee. Think of it as a chess games where capital
is always white and therefore gets to go first,
every new round of the game. Furthering the chess analogy, there is ZERO luck in a Chess game beyond who makes the first move, compared to say poker, where there is always an element of uncertainty in every hand. No player has a consistent advantage over many games, except in the case of genuine skill.
The IR system and the FWA has removed uncertainty for business over the last 30 years, enabling them to control labour, a new Capital Feudalism. Employee relations are now a set piece game, a settled science and employees will be grateful for what they are given at the whim of the employer. The gig economy is the ultimate embodiment of this system of total insecurity, where every shift may be your last.
I can predict with great certainty, the next negotiations will involve a significant delay beyond the expiry date , therefore the implied loss of backpay / involuntary pay freeze, a last minute "deadline", a crisis and finally here is a document we prepared earlier, sign here. All totally predictable, contrived and designed to give you the illusion of some control of the process. They then always come back and say, but you voted for it, this is a voluntary agreement! Just as in the former Soviet block there was only one name on the ballot paper, but you were free to vote. These people know exactly what they are doing.
If you don't like it, your only real option is to maximise your skills and value on the market, take the training and move somewhere else when opportunities present themselves.