If they think a big stick like that is going to be the approach needed, it just goes to show how delusional and out of touch the millions of managers are.
Maybe it is bathing in that ever deepr bathtub of money coming from airline passengers each day each day.
Perhaps it is a competition amongst the extra 100 (airline funded) managers we now have to see who can be the stupidest.
We must be getting close to a 1:1 Manager:Money Earner ratio surely?
Just imagine if they (still) had ATC licences - we might even be able to keep the airspace open most of the time.
Good idea - get rid of controllers, make them managers and then force the remaining controllers to do more overtime to cover the new shortfall of controllers.
How about.... No. How about you take your stupid ideas and shove them fair and square up your ever fattening bottom line. Come up with something resembling reality if you are serious as you claim about negotiating in good faith. So far all we have seen is a fanciful policy approaching human rights violations that must have been drafted by Peter Reith, Tony Abbott, Heather Ridout, Peter Hendy, John Howard, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Robert Mugabe, Joseph Goebbels, Lucifer & The Solid Gold Dancers whilst they were freebasing some serious combinations of pharmacalogical product.