It will take a huge change of attude from QF management to rectify the damage done to Engineering & Maintenance. This dispute only highlighted the contempt with which current management view the workers. Yes, the company needs to make a profit, but current plans seem to be too short sighted. At present this company does not offer attractive wages or career opportunities for young people who have the intellect and aptitude needed to properly maintain modern passenger aircraft.
This leaves the current ageing work force to try to keep things going, but a lot of them are just biding there time, until they can retire comfortably.
Go to the CASA website and look at the average age of a LAME in Australia, LAMEs over 40 years of age form the largest group. Interestingly there seems to be no info on numbers or ages of AMEs.
The future of QF E&M is hanging in the balance, it needs a huge injection of AMEs to keep it from falling over.................and that is just the beginning........
Last edited by YOSHI; 26th Aug 2008 at 01:51.
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