Quote from BA "People - please, before you start, don't turn this thread into a Jetstar bashing exercise"...BA should have added because this is to be a tech and cabin crew bashing exercise instead....Whenever BA is not at the club playing Bingo he makes posts like this one
There are a number of factors which we can attribute to the slow Death by Darth of Qantas…. (Sounds like a Shakespearean play)
The first is Darth himself and his never ending quest to create a shell out of a successful and profitable Australian icon.
The second is the number of applicants falling over themselves for a job in which the pay and conditions are more third world than those enjoyed by most workers in Australia including the corporate sector who are doing very nicely for themselves thank you very much.
Next are the existing J* tech crew who blinked first when playing chicken with Darth and voted to accept an EBA which effectively devalued virtually every other aviation job in Australia.
The new IR laws are also involved here and with out doubt create an environment that enables Darth and other employers to create a new social class in our country. Last nights story about the meat industry on the ABC shows that the airline industry is not the only one at risk.
Lastly there is the silence from the unions representing QF who are would appear to be concerned that if they speak up then they and their members will incur the wrath of Darth.He certainly would appear to have succeeded in scaring the daylights out of our union leaders.
However, you would think by BA’s post that AIPA and FAAA are the only unions representing QF’s workers but that is BA’s jealousy of tech and cabin crew showing its ugly face yet again.
BA has never told us which part of QF he works in but continues to slam it’s flight crew ad nauseum.
It will take all of the unions who represent QF’s workers to act in unison if we are to have any chance of stopping Darth and his apprentices from gutting Qantas.
Certainly voting out the incumbent government or perhaps contacting your local coalition member and telling them that unless something is done they will become the opposition at the next election might help.
However, can the Labor party gain control of the senate so it can change the IR laws?
Last edited by lowerlobe; 7th Sep 2006 at 00:40.