Eden99
I look at this site from time to time to see what the minority of crew who post on here "think" about certain issues.
Eden99 it is interesting that some in here think you are an FAAA official, and judging from comments like roamingwolf's , it is amusing that he thinks you are Mijatov.
Of course,those who know senior officials of the FAAA (LH) and those who follow industrial issues closely and who understand these issues,would know that the senior leadership of the FAAA are the best in the history of the union. The current officials have delivered on every promise they made to the membership in 2003 and their term isn't even expired.
People like roamingwolf are interesting because they attack the FAAA for not having enough "venom"..... i think Pegasus 747 summed it up very well when he said words to the effect that if you want to attack people like Dixon in public then you can expect a similar response back from the employer..... remembering that Dixon now has the full array of industrial laws he can use against the LH FAAA and its members.
Would roamingwolf really like to provoke Dixon into issuing individual contracts for LH crew???? Does he think that would be a good outcome. Dixon uses every opportunity to atack only 2 Qantas unions out of 13..... and they are firstly and foremostly the Mijatov led FAAA and more recently the pilots union AIPA. He does not attack the FAAA International Division because they "bend over " as roamingwolf suggests.
roamingwolf is also interesting because he doesn't actually identify or nominate anything bad, wrong or defficient that the FAAA has actually done. This is because the FAAA has actually delivered.
He perhaps might like to go back to previous incompetent officials who produced the disaster called EBA6 OR who the Company laughed at when a 12 hour stop work meeting was called in feb 2003.
roamingwolf also will have an opportunity to stand for FAAA elections next year in march. Lets see him and other like minded individuals come forward... produce a platform and indicate to crew how and what magic they intend to use?
It is easy standing in the peanut gallery, like roamingwolf and continually sniping .... and at the same time being "clueless" as Eden suggested he is.
The FAAA has never agreed we are overpaid.... what the FAAA has said is that it intends having frank, open and mature discussions with its members so that we don't face oblivion. Frank discussions mean jusdt that.... discussing realities of the situation that we are facing...rather than doing what roamingwolf suggests and hide our faces and pretend it's all a bad dream.
The Company knows we are the most expensive and they are actively eliminating us because we are. Qantas management aren't interested in the FAAA's view as to whether we are or are not overpaid..... as Eden99 said that is irrelevent. What is clear to Qantas is that it can replace its most expensive crew (LH) with much cheaper alternatives.
The FAAA is simply saying crew have to address that reality or they will not have a job.... roamingwolf's solution is to slag off at Dixon (QANTAS) and by doing so ,that it will magically eliminate all the problems.
To Eden99, i say there is little point in engaging people like roamingwolf because they are not influenced by rational debate. They have a narrow fixed view on things and whilst they are well intentioned, they firstly have no industrial experience, secondly they do not understand the industrial laws and thirdly they do not comprehend the damage that can be done to 3000 LH australian based crew if their zany views were to be implemented.
Finally, it is clear that the FAAA leadership has got overwhelming support amongst the membership..that has been demonstrated at every opportunity.