The interesting part of the last post is that there is a chance that if a new eba is signed then because that was drafted after the new industrial laws it is vulnerable to being squashed.
So if we do nothing and wait until our current eba finishes we then have to do something anyway.So at best we wait 12 months but then we are back to square one.It seems that we should get some heavy weight legal advice here.
I reckon it is time to pay a few dollars each and get the big guns in the form of a qc to understand where we stand and what our best move is.
If there is any legal possibility of the new owners doing this they will because money is the bottom line to them as that is why they are buying us not because they like qf.
As there is an election next year the company will probably not want to do anything that would jeopardize the Libs so we should use that to our advantage as well.
What Pegasus is saying is essentially true but as he just repeated what jaded boiler said and that is if we sign a new eba which is post march last year then the company or whoever owns it can ask the commission to squash it.
It is not any good just to go on and on and on about throwing out Howard we must accept the possibility of him winning and act accordingly
Pegasus if we fall back to our award and how can we have a vastly reduced pay.If we are based on our award then we are on our award
So signing a new eba is no guarantee of safety either because as you said it can be removed so how is that going to give us security or promotion or anything.What is the advantage of a new eba when it can bve removed when our current eba is pre- new ir laws
We must get decent legal advice and not just from our usual source
Last edited by roamingwolf; 6th Dec 2006 at 22:31.