Now is the time to be clear and strong and about what is important to us for the next EBA negoitations. We must make it clear WE will not accept anything less than what we are currently working on.
Our current EBA would no doubt have been a hard battle to produce, and even though sometimes we think some of those conditions suck, it's better than what has been offered recently, so we should not accept anything less.
What we want offered is
better working conditons, not
worse!
We must not accept or allow our management to offer us anything less than what we are currently on. Why should we? We should not be undervalued for doing the same job.
We should not be focusing on what we want to 'give up' but focusing on what we want changed for our advantage. Remember its OUR Flight attendants working conditions we are discussing, not a management's plan or money saving scheme.
For those of you that aren't aware:
16 August 2007: Qantas today announced a
record profit before tax of $1,032 million for the year ended 30 June 2007, a 53.8 per cent increase on the prior comparative year to 30 June 2006.
The Chairman of Qantas, Ms Margaret Jackson, said the net profit after tax of $720 million was also a
record, and that the company had generated a return above the cost of capital invested in all the businesses.
Isn't it interesting, record profits, yet they claim we need to be more competitive.
Yes Qantaslink does need to be more competitive with the recent changes to the aviation industry, but what is an airline industry without change.
Don't be fooled, being more competitive is not about sacraficing Flight Attendants working conditions, it's about the airlines productivity as a whole. Management should be looking at product and service, not about safety and security.
Also, I'm so over the whinging from negative fa's particularly from those been in the industry for a few years. We want you to stop it, we all know its bad, don't you have anything else going in your life you can talk about.
Also in regards to the A380, I heard QF will be hiring or opening bases overseas such as Thai crew, similar to JQI.