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Old 16th May 2008, 04:18
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YOSHI
 
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Good to see some action at last. By being united we will get a better outcome than the silly offer that QF has made.

I will have to agree that LAMEA380 has a piont that there may be a 'new player' out there! And that QF may be entitled to use outside contractors to perform work on its behalf!

But QF would have to first get rid of it's existing workforce, by makeing them all redundant.

The question I have for LAMEA380 is this , considering that QF employ at least half of the country's LAMEs, where can any 'new player' get it's workforce from? Bearing in mind that there is a skills shortage generaly, and QF(or any other company) has failed to train any significant numbers of AMEs over the last several years, the 'new player' would depend on ex QF workforce to join them. The older LAMEs will be looking for semi-retirement jobs and the younger guys will look overseas for the better paying contracts, while others will look at other industries. This will leave QF in a very vulnerable position, one that could cause the company to collapse, all of it's own doing. Now where would that leave the shareholders?

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