Good on you engineers
I have also been listening and watching the news (as an interested third party observer) and speaking to people affected. Don't be despondent , nearly all are on your side.
Alot of people outside are in the same position as you, being told to take scraps or nothing while CEOs and management flunkies hand themselves outrageous rises on the back of your O/T and productivity.
GD stated that Qantas have an engineering record second to none, he should be asked who made that reputation and who maintains it. It doesn't matter how many managers you have in ivory towers, it is the person on the tools with their PROFESSIONAL pride who wont cut corners who maintains and guards that reputation, that they are rightly proud of.
It is this professional pride that these parasites have been gouging on.Not just you lot, but your pilots, F/As, check-in staff, and all the others proud to work for the WhiteRat.
Unfortunately this is a management trait that has swung through most of corporate Australia. Hopefully, when the media see which way the wind is blowing, they'll do a 180 and pretend they are on the side of the 'man in the street' and rage against corporate excesses.Remember Bondy was a darling then a ratbag.
Good luck, you have heaps of support even if you don't realise it.