Originally Posted by
dr dre
Agreed. There was a paywalled article from a few weeks ago that suggested the FWC said the issue was mostly the members not agreeing with the course set by the union?
“Pilots ignoring course set by union: FWC”
An "ineluctable finding" that the AFAP could not persuade pilot members at a Qantas subsidiary to vote up a new deal supported by the union has helped convince the FWC that it should make an intractable bargaining declaration sought by the airline.
If there’s already been two agreements between the two parties then that will be the path of least resistance out of the situation.
It took the FWC 15 months to decide the outcome of the AIPA/mainline situation post October 2011 so I don’t see this current case being wrapped up soon.
Maybe. It’s no doubt come to the attention of the commissioners that Qantas desperately needs a face saving outcome here but, as many have mentioned, Fairwork will be making a lot of work for themselves if they go out of their way to protect IR’s fragile egos. Either way a lot of people aren’t waiting to find out what the result will be.