It was mentioned that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. From what we are seeing, the left hand knows exactly what the right hand is doing. The right hand is shaking yours, seeking more employee engagement. The left hand has a knife in it and it is about to slash your throat.
The Qantas group have deliberately created a number of different entities to avoid obligations to industrial agreements, Australian laws and the Qantas Sale Act.
The next round of EA discussions at Qantas and then Jetstar for LAMEs and Pilots will be crucial. We are all in this together and need to work with, not against each other.