Sydney s/h
Your naievety is amusing.
By your mate "training" as you put it, he was effectively saying to the Company use me to work, and ill do it at a cheaper rate.By strikebreaking I will be undermining an industrial protest which is designed to apply pressure on the Company. This form of assistance is aimed at your mate possibly gaining employment at the potential of your expense.Maybe even your job.
Do you think your mate realised that had a full strike gone forward and he had flown that you might have been sacked and he might have been offerred full time employment on a contract basis.
Do you think that this thought process occurred to him or do you think he was sitting around with nothing to do and thought hed love to hop on a plane for a couple of days.
Oh thats right the Company are to blame they made him do it.The Company are not in any way to blame for the decisions individuals outside the Company make when accepting employment. Buyer beware!
Look, I hate the word scab, I think it is a word that denigrates the user more so than the accused.
However, by your mates actions he was proving he was no mate of yours - just my opinion of course
Ps Roamingwolf, get off the FAAAs back. You sound like a former official or a former officials friend.Historically I think there are very few officials who are blameless for many past contentious issues. Some of those past decisions still haunt us today and will continue to do so well into the future(or whats left of it). They should also be appreciated for having a go.
Get over this union bitterness and move on.
Eden,Guardian i may agree with what you say but probably best if its not said. remember Deny, deny,deny.The company often does, look at the recent Frankfurt allowance incident. It apeared nobody made the decision - or would admit to it.
