Originally Posted by
Beer Baron
Isn’t that exactly what has happened, in spite of the PIA?
As for it going on forever, well the union is also allowed to apply for IB, so again it’s hard to see what PIA has achieved (thus far).
Precisely.
The supposed point of PIA was to bring the company back to the table and offer an acceptable deal.
That didn’t happen.
Instead, the company (and now the AFAP through their submissions) have effectively said that negotiations are over and now a third party will determine the outcome. An outcome that is out of the control of the bargaining agents - assuming no deal is reached within the next 13 days.
All this talk of ‘PIA is the only language that Qantas understands’ has done nothing to force them to agree to a better deal in this case.
None of this is to say that there is no place for PIA, there is, it just has to be used wisely.