Well its almost a certainty that our
VB forum was the vehicle for establishing a broad debate on the EBA issue and ultimately resulted in a high majority NO vote. I can only say that a combined forum of parties with like interests will go a long way to erasing the 'them and us' fractions that exist between DJ, QF and Jetstar. For twenty years the airline pilots' "industry standard" conditions worldwide have been dictated by management types in a take it or leave it attitude. Its been a buyers market. One has to feel that the industry standard is about to be set by us again and rightly so. A combined forum will go a long way in establishing that unity and give us the means for meaningful discourse between pilot groups. In fact it will be the first and a necessary step towards common representation.