Originally Posted by
BudgieFerguson
No, definitely not. Where have all the LifeFlight sceptics gone? QG Air, OSA/CHC, PHI, Babcock, Westpac, Toll. Truck Masters. Take your pick. And everyone else is just worn out or too excited they’re not flying Robbies anymore to complain.
The second or third lot of pilot reps in as many years have resigned yesterday with an email suggesting that the AFAP has wet their pants and are no longer working collaboratively with the pilot group. Can’t wait to hear the AFAP spin on agreeing to a deal that pays DTA below the award rate and giving up on chasing the back pay owed from the last agreement. A union for the pilots? These disputes with the company have been going on for years and the AFAP allowing them to get away with it is a disgrace. Piss weak.
Company treats its staff with contempt. Lowest paid pilots in the industry. Paying peanuts, now getting monkeys to replace the pilots and engineers leaving in droves for the operators that have reasonable pay and conditions. Roster is in pieces with shifts dropped or whackers in management having to fill shifts. Some even have to miss hockey training to go flying.
Company is a mess but watch all the sycophants, old boys and ex-corporals with a bad case of the Dunning-Krugers and a whiff of power rush to the defence of good old LifeFlight - the charity you support even when their contracts are fully funded but still can’t afford to pay their staff properly. At least not as long as the current company car fleet is maintained.
Right. So biggest Government contract…and still a ‘charity’? How does that possibly work? Also, where’s the money going? If in fact Lifeflight are the lowest paid pilots in the Rescue Helicopter industry why does anyone work for them, are they just a stepping stone into the industry? If this is the case they must have a massive training budget? Maybe that’s where the money goes….training up rescue pilots for all the other operators in Australia?
I wonder what the Queensland tax payer thinks if in fact they can’t fill their rosters and can’t provide a service? I wonder what the media would find if they went digging into this mess? Sounds like a mess of an organisation.