Special CEO Direct - 6 October 2008
Monday, 6 October 2008
On Saturday, Airservices Australia withdrew 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 because we now recognise an increase in service disruptions is because we have failed to provide adequate staffing and have successfully disengaged our ATC workforce. These disruptions have nothing to do with 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 controllers are doing the right thing and Airservices will continue the disruption to our customers until I am sacked by the minister and someone capable is employed to fix things properly.
..........Only joking - but I wonder if the CEO will be quite so willing to trumpet a backdown on Monday.