Contracts!! AAARGH!
We are currently negotiating our CA (certified agreement). We cannot take industrial action until the protected bargaining period. This begins on expiry of the current CA, in October.
The current TIBA occurences are really due to a shortfall of staff, fatigue management constraints, and the recent bouts of flu like viruses that are doing the rounds in Brisbane at the moment. We have enough ATCs to do the job as long as not too many controllers get sick at the same time.