News just in:
Stop work called off
Air Traffic controllers tonight called off a planned stopwork on Friday following a successful conference in the Industrial Relations Commission, Melbourne.
Civil Air President Ted Lang said he was pleased with progress in negotiations with Airservices Australia at the conference which started at 5pm yesterday and finished at Midnight.
A statement issued by the Commission said agreement had been reached for a framework for discussion to be concluded by 28 June. In this period, Civil Air agreed not to undertake any industrial action while Airservices Australia agreed not to apply to terminate the bargaining periods before 28 June.
Perhaps now both sides can stop posturing and actually talk and negotiate the issues.
Would be nice if Airservices sent someone who could negotiate truely and not have to be answerable to "Masters".
I understand if no agreement is reached by 28 June then it will go to arbitration before the commission, so all you nervous nellys can now relax. The 'threatened' action got Civil Air what we all wanted, a chance to negotiate.
I'm also told that the Commissioner is not happy with Airservices approach because they didn't follow the previously agreed path.
Tacolote.
P.S. I wonder how profitable Airservices will be if they don't turn staff morale around in a big hurry. There were at least 50 people suggesting to me tonight that they have no desire to keep working for this lot and had no desire to work overtime or take any risks when they felt a little off... Of course that isn't good for the industry and know doubt peoples professionalism will remain, even if the Boss aka Bernie Smith said we weren't professional.
Long memories Bernie......
The green grass of OS looks very enticing... CANSO, damn the electric fence...