PaF
Firstly, no one wants to go down the path of PIA, however negotiating
is not working. Its 3% and the company wants trade offs.
So in effect we are going backwards and giving away conditions to boot.
We have sat here and listened to GD rattle off every excuse for
keeping staff wages at 3%, we have had 9/11 , SARS ,bird flu, exchange rate and now oil prices.
We have done our bit, we have had wage freezes, shown wage restraint by
not pushing for a higher pay rise than the 3% offered, and done every
dumb ass thing we have been asked to do to " save money"
The problem is that while all this was going on instead of leading by example our executives have been giving themselves massive pay rises and bonuses .
Our CEO very nearly put 60M in his pocket as a " finders fee" for the sale of QANTAS. (I am still amazed that was legal!!!!)
In effect what has been happening is that QF management have set up
quite a tidy little earner for themselves here.
All you need to do is not spend any money and a percentage of what
you dont spend will end up in your pocket.
Don't fix anything, put off any purchases , don't train people , don't
buy any equipment , its easy really!
So all these greedy little lacky's have cut thru the fat into the bone and things are starting to fall apart but they can't say that can they or there will no bonus this year.
So what do they do? they say that all is well and they all get a nice fat pay check and it really doesn't matter if things arn't because soon they will move on and it will be someone elses problem.
Well the staff have had enough
Its not just the LAME's jacking up here , its all staff.
The check in staff are getting hammered, the rampies are doing it pretty
tough, catering are constantly under threat of being sold off. We are short
of pilots and the cabin crew are getting smashed and all engineering ever gets told is that we will get outsoursed.
Every dept has its own issues. But they all have one thing in common
and that is that they have had a gutfull and it is starting to effect the
operation .
If for one minute our execs had practiced what they preached and shown
some form of restraint we may not be in the situation we are now, however
having management cry poor while giving themselves huge pay increases has worn real thin and the staff are not going to put up with it any more.
So I ask you Paf,
What do we do because I am all ears?
Last edited by acslame; 24th May 2008 at 04:08.