He is now a DEFO, and by the way, over a beer, ask him what he thinks of our training system versus EK's. He was a C+T over there but wanted to get back to OZ.
Thats one that come our way - any idea how many have gone the other way? I am not sure but I know I met an EK CN in 2002 who had left CX in 1998 as he was so pissed off. Would be nice to know actual flow either way.
Middle east is good for poms and no worse for canucks than here. Much worse for aussies though!
They lost almost 100 guys last year. Work rate on the bus was close to 900hours but is likely to be closer to 700hours this year(CX is targetting close to 700). They subsequentely had 17% payrise for new joiners this year. It will be interesting to see if the reduced work rate and increased pay reduces the turnover.
CX workrate has increased from 590 to 690 since last pay negotiations and we have had no payrises.
So in summary
EK - workrate reduces more than 20% gets 17% payrise,
CX - workrate increased almost 20% get no payrise!
So I have no problem expecting a big double digit payrise from CX.
"Tell him he's dreamin"