The only way to stop these threads is to vote for some power in the workplace then get all pilots in the QF group on the same agreement not a worse one.
Divide and conquer that's managements strategy and it's working.
Easy to get T and C down when a new hire is sat in any office handed a contract and told if they don't sign there is no Job and it's back to the even lower T and C in their current Job. So what do they do they sign. Lets face it guys who are in the postion to negotiate for the right T and C never had a problem before and contracts with better than award or EBA conditions occasionally happened for those positions.
What needs to happen is some communication between groups to organise how this is going to happen. As for Pilot training every professional Pilot should be pushing for higher standards wherever and for whoever they work for same said for maintenance at the end of th day it's our arse on the line. But with things like the Multi Crew Licence on the way and offshore maintenance allready happening it doesn't look good industry wide.
As far a comparing our profession to the medical profession there is one major difference besides the type of work we do. That is the AMA regulates the number of doctors in training (supply) to ensure there is always adequate demand ensuring good terms and conditions. But our industry makes a profit training pilots so they can often be unemployed with a large debt to pay scratching around worldwide to find somewhere they can work to pay the debt off.
Anyway thats my two cents worth.
