So have you AH chaps got any feedback from your management team? Any movement on your wages and conditions? If you guys have been waiting for 12 months for an answer from your head office gurus, then what is going on? Do they seriously value your abilities and effort? How about sending a fire cracker up one of their asses to get them into action?
Or is their management style the black-hole approach to staff - ask away, send stuff to them, leave messages and it all disappears into a black hole like it never existed. Do they have the slighted idea about HR management and the current problems beings experienced with respect to mid and upper level aircrew shortages?
One previous contract I worked on allowed for cost variations to be passed onto the client, such as increased fuel costs, insurance costs etc etc. And vice verse, if costs were reduced, then the contract rate was also reduced. What scope is there for the management team to simply make an approach to the client (Government??) and request a revised rate schedule due to increased costs in terms of HR? If you can do it for consumables, such as fuel, then why not HR? No fuel, no fly! No staff, no fly?
Or did AH simply undercut everyone in order to get the contract and in return expect that their staff would be happy with below average wages?
Eh?
Is this also the reason for their Adelaide contract and the use of very, very second hand machinery down there...compare their 'competition' whom normally start such contractd with new or much newer gear AND, wait for it, AND they pay their staff appropriate rates of remuneration.
Sorry chaps, but it really boggles the mind.
