This could well be an interesting update
Qantas is offering its former engineers, some made redundant as little as a year ago, jobs as strike breakers with a $100,000 salary for just six months work, a union says.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...344952338.html
IF, Qantas manage to get a team of strike breaking scabs, how do they go about training the scabs considering they require, under the Qantas system of maintenance, and a CASA requirement no doubt, 214 training and differences training ?
Even if they do manage to secure enough scabs, will the staff at the technical training school at Qantas be willing to train a bunch of scabs ?
One thing we do have on our side is there are a lot of bitter redundant ex Qantas workers, who are more then likely going to tell resumedomain.com to stick it as well as the fact that by the rules and reg's of this country state that engineers are unable to maintain their CASA License due to not working on aircraft for a 6 month in a 24 month period.
Anyway, if at the end of the day we are all locked out, lose our jobs and Qantas have an alternative workforce, I for one think its great they would be willing to pay their engineers 200k a year, more then a captain at the same airline. Could it be a sign of the future ?????
How much would it cost to give an extra 2% compared to the millions of $ they're willing to spend on scabs.. Really it does say something about this company's agenda.