very true. all opposition will be crushed lol
God you take yourself too seriously....i am sure there are people who actually have conversations every day with elected officials and the lawyers that the FAAA employ and they "don't" have to agree
show me one newsletter from the FAAA that says members arent entitled to a view. The FAAA is not required to agree with every member.
In fact if the FAAA responded to every pressure group pushing their own barrows it would be pandemonium
Lets look at some of the issues the FAAA has to play solomon over
1. Crew that have previous service with the COmpany that want that counted for seniority for bidding and redundancy
2. crew that resigned from TAA and joined Qantas want their previous service with TAA counted for bidding
3. crew who were forced to leave through discrimination and came back got their seniority back thanks to the previous elected officials of the FAAA and over 1000 crew signed petitions and took the matter to court to overturn it and lost....resentment still remains
4. Crew who were with AO in CNS who resigned to join QCCA now want continuity of service and part 1 conditions
5. Junior Crew who are doing back to back JNB want a cap on them and that would force them further up the tree or at the least cause capping on other trips as well.
6. crew who would prefer last on first off redundancy for junior crew rather than the Long Service leave burn or the tri partite agreement.
7. Crew who want promotions in Melbourne only for Melbourne based crew
8. Crew who want Seniority scrapped
9. crew who want category seniority for CSS/CSM
10. Crew who want parts of the EBA overturned and renegotiated, but without the company getting to change any of the things that they want
11. QCCA crew who want the end of seniority and junior QAL crew would would also like to see seniority scrapped.
12. Short Haul crew that want international flying and short haul crew that only want to be in INternational
13. Short Haul crew in CNS that want out of CNS
14. Perth domestic crew who want out of perth (including those that have just joined)
15. A government that when approached about overseas bases and offshoring "says get over it it's part of globalisation". And allows any foreign airline to operate in and out of australia without any conditions
16. Company's like Virgin that wont even negotiate with Unions
and the list goes on and on
If anyone has a solution to any of these issues that will make "everyone" happy i think they should email the FAAA...
and thats not to mention
the recidivist drunks that keep turning up for work pissed or drink on the aircraft and are a constant drain on FAAA resources
Crew that are constantly dobbing on other members causing a few new clause 11's everyweek
CSM's and CSS's incapable of managing a conversation with their managers without it turning into a clause 11
and thats not to even mention pathalogical liars as cabin crew managers and team managers who set people up that they dont like and the FAAA is attending meetings every day with members to ensure that they are being treated fairly
Last edited by Pegasus747; 14th May 2009 at 08:49.