Foremost, thank you Exec for your tireless efforts. A big thank you to the membership for the show of solidarity.
Now my big concern - Our management will now go full steam ahead with all their ludicrous initiatives and drive parts of our 'usual' business to the ground.
One way or another, they will fashion out savings to pay for our reasonable, fair and just pay claim and drive us to the wall.
Think rosters, redundancies, customer payments, overtime etc etc etc.
Same management, hell bent on destruction.
Again, will patiently wait by the riverbank.
Clipped, whichever way this EBA went, the fuse has been set, and the eventual shutdown of maintenance within QF is inevitable. The ball was set rolling in 2005 with the shutdown of HM in SYD, and went to the "overflow" centre in AVV. Now that QF has set up a joint MRO in Malaysia, which is supposedly for "overflow" work, we will see the eventual demise of AVV. One only has to look at the various places QF is now getting its work done where they have set up maintenance facilities.
The failure of the APA bid last year hastened the actions we have seen from late last year till now. As SP stated in his letter, QF had a massive "fighting fund" to break us one way or another. The revenue lost and damage to our reputation was a consequence QF management was prepared to wear. The financial loss incurred over the last few months was far greater than the 5% we were asking for, and possibly the wage cost (approx $360 million) across the company that GD was complaining about.
There was an article in Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald where GD stated that in 10 years time, QANTAS will still be around, but there won't be so many aircraft flying the QANTAS colours. The rest will be flying the colours of Jeffstar.
Sad but true, but at least we showed our resolve to the company that we aren't the easy pushovers they took us for.