Originally Posted by
turbantime
Just to be clear, the unions have not said that a No vote will automatically mean a return to the award. Neither has the company. The risk is there and there will be some more hurdles before they get to that point, but the unions have explained that very clearly.
The messaging has consistently been that it's either the EA or we will revert to the award, but as you rightly pointed out, there is still a significant number of hurdles they must jump before it even ends up before Fair Work. There are over 20,000 EAs that are approved by Fair Work each year and only 3 or 4 EAs that have been successfully terminated by FW in the past 5-6 years. It is very unlikely without the right accumulation of circumstances that a termination application will be successful.. you only have to read the cases to see this..
What's astounding is that in the latest proposal, they've binned the DTA and reduced the salary of some of the pilots to give to another group of pilots, presumably to increase management's salary.. they're clearly shifting money around to benefit one group at the expense of the other. A NO vote is simply a response to a **** deal and a long way from PIA (which nobody wants) and will simply result in a continuation of the current EA.