The toe cutter made it quite clear that redundancies and redeployment were not transferrable amongst the "business units".
He said that when it came to compulsary rdundancies that the unions would have to sort out who went but that it was usually last on first off.
This is indeed the principles that the LAMES are employed under as per their eba. (eba iv) Last on first off and then those nearing retirement age.
ie New blokes and Old blokes.
Then they can sort out the rest.
It is obvious however that the company has no intention in sticking to the EBA when it comes to the clause about doing everything possible to avoid redundancies in consultation with the unions.
Because this would mean that they have already consulted with union representaives and discussed the plans for the future and asked for some input. If this has happened we haven't heard about it.
In fact all the Alaea has done about it is asked Keith Clarke what he knows and accepted that he knows nothing.
There has been no persual of the ones that would know ie Cox and Dixon and O'Donnel and the mob of consultants.
I have not seen one notice from the Fed Exec about our current crisis.