We suspect an announcement around the 16th of feb.
The general manager of H/M has said that "The D check was postponed to maintain the integrity of the Line."
What ever he means by that is anyones guess.
One indicator though is that the Lean Sigma team is feverishly working on h245 to streamline sA checks.
Indications from the man in charge of outsourcing and insourcing are that to Lean Sigma the Hangar for a D check would be overkill. And that is what they would be doing if D checks were in the long term plan.
What would be nice is if the management team came down and told us the truth.
The truth would involve what the options for Lne 1 etc are. Not the overall summary ie No change (not going to happen), All Outsourced (on the table),
Major changes in the structure and operations in H/M (Also on table), .... but what the Major changes would involve. you know the sort of thing, they could come down and say "Well fellas if we decide to keep Sydney Line 1 open we will be going to 5 day week about shift and running overlapping sA cecks and we will have to reduce staff by x amount"
or "If we keep Line 1 open we will be doing ....whatever"
This would at least give people some idea of how to plan for their futures.
Should they ask their wives to start looking for work and to book child care places or will that not be required, should they sign up for weekend sport, should they they sign that house contract or lease that car should they start to retrain , do some computer courses etc,etc,etc.
This secrecy is obscene. The staff are being used by Geoff Dixon as political ammunition in an attempt to keep Singapore airlines off the LAX route.
Darth Dixon is saying to Little Johnny "if you open it up we will have to sackk australian workers and we are going to blame you"
in reality whether or not Singapore get in will make no difference to Dixon....All he sees is profit and if he has identified a way to increase it he will do it no matter what.
I just wish our managers would have the balls to show us some respect.