Deadhead, I will take it up with the union myself when I have a bit of spare time on my hands and Pm you or post here the results. It isn't recent enough to really matter any more and nothing that they do now is going to alter what or where I am now with my career. My point in first posting was to try to ensure that the same treatment wasn't dished out to the OP guys and girls, some of whom have been through redundancy more than once. Sorry I had to hijack the thread and drag it through three pages in order to do it.
Crack, taking on your employer in the tiny world that is NZ aviation is bad enough without thinking about the consequences of taking on the union as well. Irrespective of whether I had a valid complaint or not it is easy to see from some of the replies here that I would have been vilified.
MOR good on you. You obviously understood your terms of employment better than I understood mine.