Qantas Retrenchments
From the ABC website.
"Qantas staff retrenched, union says
The Australian Services Union says Qantas has started retrenching staff to cut costs.
The union says 14 check-in staff at Newcastle Airport have been told they could soon be out of a job after the Qantas budget airline, Jetstar, outsourced its passenger service contract.
A spokesman for Jetstar has confirmed the contract is being reviewed.
ASU assistant national secretary, Linda White, says the Newcastle job losses could be the start of a larger program of job cuts.
"As many as 14 of them are going to lose their jobs and it's because Jetstar's decided to no longer use their services," she said.
"They're going to outsource outside the Qantas group.
"We think that's an absolute outrage because of the promises we received about nobody's job being affected by the introduction of Jetstar, and these are the first casualties ."
How distasteful. Even a billion dollar profit won't satisfy them, and you reckon its worth keeping SIA out for this?