Originally Posted by DirectAnywhere
In short you're saying f&*k all of my future cabin crew colleagues because I'm alright Jack!!
Not quite DirectAnywhere.
Qantas is not willing to employ any more permanent fulltime cabin crew based in Australia because of the conditions that they have to be employed under.
If any Australian wants a job as Qantas Cabin crew you either have to be employed in London, Auckland on temporary contract or casual in Australia.
The concept of a B scale is to allow Qantas to start hiring permanent full time cabin crew based in Australia.
So while it may seem to some to be doing a disservice to future colleagues, from our perspective it is creating permanent full time positions that otherwise would not exist.
It also will help to alleviate the growing frustration being felt among junior crew who have seen no change to their seniority in a number of years.
I am certainly not one that thinks our own pay and conditions can be maintained indefinitely, whether we have a B pay scale or not, but I think this might be a way to stop the movement of Qantas cabin crew jobs to other countries.