Yup, you Steve did a great job. Drove up the cost of labor ensuring less job opportunities for Australian maint workers, and cost the economy.. What a great bloke!
I think you will find that the greatest loss of jobs for Qantas Maintenance workers came when 680 positions were made redundant after the closure of Sydney HM. This came after countless years of wage restraint and pi$$ weak union support. Since the LAME dispute last year only 5 LAME positions company wide have been declared redundant. They were all in Cairns and due to the Jetstar takeover.
It wasn't the LAMEs who cost $130M, we gave them 18 months to negotiate and they wouldn't. Turn your anger to Geoff he is the one who wanted to blow $130M.