Midnight,
The difference between Australian and British LAw is that after a ballot striking is legal in th UK. And any damages sustained by the airline are the leverage that the union has.
In Australian industrial action including strikes is illegal and not only can the union be sued for the damages but individual flight attendants that participate in any action.
I dont know about you Midnight but i dont fancy losing my home and i dont think any other flight attendant wants to be bankrupted by Qantas either.
If Qantas workers could take industrial action legally i would imagine that the engineers and pilots and ASU that just lost a lot of IT workers to India would be taking action now too.
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Most of the Long HAul crew that not only talk the talk but are prepared to walk the walk ( in terms of Industrial Action) have taken packages over the last 3-4 years.
The old guard that have some fire in the belly are no longer with us. Industrial action has a place but only when negitiating an EBA and now after secret ballots have taken place.
The process would take months and qantas would be well equipped to deal with it.
I yearn for the days when we could say if something isnt fixed by 6pm we are going to stop the Narita flight.