Well the 21st April was supposed to be the first day of EBA discussions, but ASAs lead man took holidays. Obviously no-one thought to advise him in the last 2+ years that this date was set in 2005.
So we now wander around to the revised May 12th date and knock me down with a feather but Airservices are 4-5 weeks away from finalising their offer.
Couldn't expect much more really, its taken them 5 years to work out they are heading towards a staffing hump.Two First Names (Greg Russell) is surprised,even though on his self proclaimed 'No Bullsh!t' tour of 2005 he was looked in the eye and told that this would come to pass, he blames previous management.
We are in a crisis and getting worse, we have an age demographic where that if a fair payrise doesn't eventuate, that we will lose experienced controllers at or near retirement age because their final average salary will go backwards in relation to inflation if they stay on.
Hello Greg, any chance of you staying in Australia for 5 minutes to sort this out.