Qantas S.I.T. Forced Transfers Ballot

[QF94]

With reference to the last in, first out, Can the ALAEA advise - Is this going to include everyone, ie DMM, LAMES,AME,T/A's, all trades Mechanical & Avionic?

Cant vote unless there is 100% clarification on this subject as the goal posts will move if after the vote its stated that only LAME Mechanical are the ones to be selected from!

This will set a precedent for any other changes that happen in any other section within Qantas Engineering, possibly even when redundancies happen.

Either way this is going to be a mess....

As far as we are being told in SIT, it is only LAME's, and it appears the majority, if not all will be mechanical. I don't believe the 12 that will be sent to Base will include DMM's. Hell, they're practically management, and they'll be choosing the ones they don't want.

It may not necessarily be that the management will follow a recommendation that the ALAEA proposes of first in, last out. They may choose the "trouble makers" to go, irrespective of the licences they hold. We all know that logic and commonsense does not prevail when it comes to making a section run. Just look at 380. All the SIT guys that went over initially, took all the 744, 767, 737, 738 and 330 licences with them, leaving us short, and here we are getting rid of another 12, and possibly more when Domestics need there operations propped up.

Beats me, Base and Domestics weren't bringing in income, but SIT were when they had all the foreign operators, then some bright spark decided we don't need customers which included:

1. British
2. Air Canada
3. Thai
4. Singapore
5. Malaysian
6. Royal Brunei
7. Air New Zealand (soon to depart 17 September)
8. Aerolineas
9. Air Pacific
10. Philippines
11. Air China
12. China Airlines
13. China Southern
14. China Eastern
15. Viva Macau
16. Hawaiin
17. Vietnam
18. Asiana

All that is left is (apart from QANTAS group airlines including Jetconnect and Jet Star):

1. Korean
2. JAL
3. Atlas Freighter (QF flight number)

Do the math. QANTAS will need to be looking at contracts down the track, and out of the 18 mentioned above, they will most probably actively seek about 3 or 4. And if/when they get the contracts back, they are going to need more guys back at the terminal