The only time they will give in is when they become labeled as scabs.
800 hrs O/T in a month @ SIT, are you KIDDING! That's like employing another 50 LAMEs! And then there's Base! Does any overtimer NOT see what the company is trying to do? Get as much of the massive backlog cleared before PIA! They're undermining us all. Are they stupid or do they just not care about improving their base rate and the lot of their work-mates?
Apparently some LAMEs have refused to work O/T on a particular crew @ SYD DOM. I hear that some of the crew have been rather forcefully expressing their opinions about the counter-productive behaviour of the overtimers. One of the crew has been formally counselled for "harrassment" by QE HR. Others have had unofficial warnings from DMMs to back off. Now we're all getting letters from QE HR reminding us of the company's harrassment policy. Perhaps we need to remind the overtimers (and the company) of the company's fatigue management policy! And remind them that they are supporting a company that fails to negotiate in good faith, bullies their colleagues into submission with threats of outsourcing, trains scabs to take their jobs, grants obscene bonuses to themselves while screwing the rest of us, refuses to train us and make us as productive as we could be, ties one hand behind our backs with unworkable procedures and mismanages an institution that worked just fine until they wrecked it.