Bit late but here is what was posted in CEO Direct...
CEO Messages
Special CEO Direct - 3 October 2008
Friday, 3 October 2008
Airservices Australia has today made an application to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission asking it to intervene and stop industrial action that has caused serious disruption to air traffic movements into and out of Sydney in the last 24 hours.
We have taken this action to address an increase in service disruptions caused by some Air Traffic Controllers refusing to work reasonable overtime to cover unplanned absences. These disruptions have coincided with the commencement of our Collective Agreement negotiations.
It is a credit to the professionalism of the majority of our ATC staff that they are getting on with it and getting the job done. It has become obvious that there is a minority that aren’t doing the right thing and Airservices can no longer tolerate the disruption to our customers.