QANTAS - Australia IV

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Gloriais18..The point is that under US law US cabin crew are not allowed to operate LAX/JFK/LAX but we do and the FAAA has gone along with it...not only that but the tech crew say that 24 hours in JFK is not enough to get adequate rest....Think about it...

As far as a reply to Twiggs/Pegasus and Eden is concerned her are just a few pertinent observations…

First Twiggs. Apparently it is not possible for OCCR or anyone to claim they speak for the majority of crew. This is unless you are Twiggs of course…. because on at least three occasions Twiggs has claimed SHE represents the majority of crew. So like management it is a case of “Do as I say not as I do”. This ranks with some of Twiggs other classics such as it’s the destinations that are important and it aint the money…Nothing more needs to said there!!!!

Secondly, I admit that I am not happy with QF management but then again with the level of disengagement at an all time high I don’t think there would be many employees who are happy with the situation. For the last 30 years or so I have watched the company on an almost weekly basis attack us and other groups of employees.

These continue to this day and unless you are completely delusional will not stop either regardless of who owns the company.

If there were no attacks there really would be no need for unions and imagine what an airline we would have if management and employees were not on a war footing.

However in a previous post Pegasus who is close to the FAAA officials defends the company…YET AGAIN by saying a crewmember is anti company……………WTF…Who’s side are you on?

Then he makes a significant slip by putting the FAAA and the company in bed together by saying that I am against the FAAA and the company…Pegasus do you know what a turncoat is?

Third, both Pegasus and Eden talk about a democratic vote. The JFK referendum was anything but democratic and only the North Korean regime would look at it as such. The vote was carried out by the FAAA with no safeguards whatsoever.

The vote should have been carried out by the Australian electoral commission. One of those representing the FAAA here claimed that it was illegal for the AEC to do this however it is far from illegal and in fact they do it for unions and other groups on a regular basis.

They also claimed that it would cost thousands of dollars but when I checked with the AEC I was told it would cost nowhere near that.

The AEC would have counted and initialed each and every vote and ensured no irregularities. The FAAA just printed them out with no safeguards such as this. How many vote cards did the FAAA print? No one knows because they were not numbered or initialed as the AEC does.

There is also the issue of how the vote was carried out. Normally with a referendum both sides of the argument are printed and given to people to read so as to be fair.

Normally there is a YES case and a NO case inserted with the ballot card so you can make up your own mind .Not with the FAAA though as they did not want any fairness in your thinking. They did not want anyone telling crew the reasons for voting NO to the shuttle as they had their own little chicken little scare campaign in full swing…

I am not suggesting that anyone in the FAAA office or the returning officer did anything illegal or wrong and I’m sure Pegasus/Eden/Guardian will protest that there is no way they would have been party to any wrong doing but the fact remains that if they were sincere in holding a DEMOCRATIC vote they would have asked the AEC to conduct it.

Finally, The FAAA tries to cloud the issue with abuse and nonsensical rhetoric to distract and confuse crew.

Eden tells us that if there were another group standing then they would have no idea…

The arrogance of eden is astounding. Does he honestly think that out of the thousands of crew they are the only 2 or 3 people who have any idea of what to do or would have any ability?

I sincerely hope there is another group standing for the next elections because we need someone to stand up and show support for CREW and not the company. As I said the current leadership of the stands for….

Flight Attendants abdicating any action and ambivalently against all activity