A little off topic, but a similar thing (QF management screwing the workers). MEL ramp is not working much OT at the moment and the operation, especially at the end of the day 0100+ is lucky to be running at the moment. Overnight aircraft left with stuff left on board, not sure about bags though. Customer airlines not happy, the list goes on.
Management are trying to say that this is union organised, of which I don't know as I'm no longer there. But my come back to that is, that if the section relies on a considerably large amount of OT to operate normally. I heard a figure of 350-380hrs average (I would believe it from experience) OT for each Ramp staff member so far this financial year. It is not the workers fault, that is a management problem of their own making.
So it sounds like over Easter will be an interesting time in MEL and network wide. On a positive note for QF management, the OT bill has come down.