FAAA Fees
During Training School and coming out onto reserve line was deemed by the FAAA particularly tough financially for the new QCCA crew. Furthermore during probation, new employees have no access to unfair dismissal laws. It was therefore deemed a recruiting exercise to offer a short waiver of fees to new flight attendants until the start of the financial year.
In the mean time the FAAA have met with the company almost daily in the implementation of EBA 8. for both QCCA and QAL crew.
The EBA deals with semiority for QAL crew but not QCCA no do AKL BKK or LHR have seniority.
The debacle over alphabetical started when the Kiwi crew objected to the QCCA crew being given choice of room allocation and work position ahead of them.
They got their Union to approach Qantas for recognition of their "seniority".
CC Management immmedialtely reacted by withdrawing the seniority numbers of not only the Kiwi crew but everyone other than QAL crew wwhere the EBA requires them to use seniority.
They moved to an alphabetical system that had unintended consequences for everyone and the FAAA has been trying to clean up the mess ever since.
The FAAA position is clearly Start Date for everyone. Until QCCA crew start putting pressure on Qantas for recognition of their start date and telling them they dont want the so called fair share it will not happen,
Further, if the QCCA crew arent members of the union then they have no representation. That would be just plain stupid and my experience is that they are anything but stupid.
They will continue to be members of the FAAA in the same percentages as QAL crew, and if they dont then only they will suffer not the QAL crew i can assure you all.
Without representation Qantas will just do whatever they want including sacking you for looking sideways or not carrying a waiters cloth.
Remember that many of these managers are lunatics