Dear Elroy,
.Inferior product, which ever way you want to justify it.
Sorry, in which way is the product inferior? Specifics please and customer survey results please.
The company knows we would be decimated if we had to go head to head with SQ and EK on the pacific run, so they hide behind the thin veil of government protectionism while accusing the opposition of doing exactly that.
Incorrect. Q knows it would lose market share on the Pacific. Equal losses would be felt by United and ANZ. Q can only maintain some sort of protection on the Pacific if it can show that it is a company that is trying to compete against unfair opposition. Very hard to do that with a perception of fat-cat staff.
OK, if the management allowed us to negotiate an AO style agreement with JQ,
And why should they do that? They have people who will do it for less. Don't say because we're loyal employees because you keep saying we ain't! You guys keep going on about how disengaged you are. Why trust the disengaged ones? Why trust a mob whose "president elect" couldn't keep his mouth shut
even before he was elected?