With all this talk especially Nostradamus (bad adventures) telling us that the EBA is finished we as well as most media missed the creative accounting exercise carried out by Qantas and in particular Darth Dixon.
Darth faced the media with his usual doom and gloom and told everyone that profit for the first half of the financial year was down 9.6%.
Not one of the media pointed out that if you took into account the re-structuring fee of $69.6 million and a one off release of accounting provisions of $52.1 million the group profit actually increased.
While everyone is fighting over aspects of the job and this includes tech crew as well ,Darth again gets away with his fabricated oratory designed to achieve his aim of destroying any organized work force.
The Qantas unions including the faaa should be calling media interviews pointing out the holes in Darths arguments because if not halted he will destroy all of our work entitlements to give himself his much wanted bonus as well as driving another Australian icon into the ground (no pun intended) .
The seniority issue is an important one but we have to look at the big picture of management using any excuse to reduce the size and conditions of the Australian workforce by stealth.
The company would like nothing more than ridding themselves of the seniority issue,if we remove bidding by seniority then the company will argue that seniority is also discriminatory to holidays and every other aspect of the job.Let’s look at refining the bid system not dismantling it.
The problems with most unions including the faaa is that they are not proactive instead they are only reactive and as such our next EBA will be an interesting one.
It doesn’t really surprise me that the media don’t point out any flaws in the dark sides press conference because they all want their free trips .