Glad the resident village idiot is still around. You obviously have absorbed the FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) provided by QF management really deeply. In other words, you really believe that the "passengers will go away" (and take your job with them) if LAME's do not accept 3% and roll over and do whatever is required of them, despite the fact that QF has an iron grip on airline capacity into and throughout Australia.
There is only one way that the passengers "really" will go away.
And that is when an overstressed LAME, makes a maintenance error.