Originally Posted by
Clear_Left
Spoken like someone who has never experienced whipsaw bargaining. SH did indeed screw the pooch for NJS pilots and themselves. Bad deals for one entity encourage bad deals for all entities. Divide and conquer is working so well.
Wrong again. The AFAP negotiation for NJS wrapped the week BEFORE the SH negotiators made their in-principal deal. At that time, as is published in their dispatches, the SH negotiators had been told to continue negotiating as the deal ‘still fell short of expectations’.
The delay in the NJS guys reaching an in-principle agreement was due to the due diligence done by the reps,
Also wrong. There wasn’t a
delay reaching an in-principle agreement, there IS NO in-principle agreement. Negotiations had finished before the SH agreement was even reached.
How on earth could the SH deal that was struck the following week possibly have tainted NJS negotiations that concluded the week prior?!?
The answer is clear, they didn’t, it had nothing to do with SH. Given Qantas mainline T&C’s are superior to NJS it is again impossible to see how a different pilot group agreeing to better conditions, a week later, could drag down another entity.
A deal wasn’t struck as Qantas IR made utterly unfair demands of the NJS pilots and the union couldn’t accept them. I applaud AFAP for standing up for their members under such pressure from Qantas.
However, I understand that the pilots themselves have now voiced a desire to vote on a deal that the negotiators deemed unacceptable.