How many from SHM found satisfactory outcomes? The minority. A handful that wanted to uproot their lives and move and a handful that were gagging to do 12hr shifts. The majority were happy to remain doing a great job on qf aircraft.'The ALAEA exec were not to lame for the decision to close SHM, that was all dixon,cox and Seabury consultants, however they must take some responsibility for sitting on their hands after the desicion was made and not taking it to the company boots and all from the minute the KeithC larke told us we were no longer wanted.
The tool we had to protect us was the enterprise agreement and it was so poorly understood and used by the industrial think tank at bexely it only fired blanks.
No retrenchments or movements should have taken place until the ebas conditions had been met.
As for Melbourne Heavy they have teh same eba conditions and this time qf isn't going to be allowed to ride roughshod over them.