Originally Posted by
Beer Baron
It’s extremely had to counter these moves when having a scope clause or taking industrial action to pursue one is illegal.
No mainline pilot has lost his job (CR) as a result of these moves so proving harm is very difficult.
Transmission of business rules set an impossibly high bar to fight a case against.
A court case against an obvious shell company subsidy gets thrown out on jurisdictional grounds.
Even taking legal industrial action of the most minor variety gets shut down by the federal government.
AIPA very much has the cards stacked against it in fighting this erosion of flying. Despite that, after 2 decades of Qantas trying, mainline pilots still hold on to the majority of their hard won conditions. That ought to be more amazing.
We've held on to those conditions- fantastic- but at what cost to promotion? Average time to Command in 2005 was about 12 years. Before Covid hit- about 21 years.