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Old 24th Nov 2010, 05:15
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Clockwork Doll
 
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Doll - are you going to specify what you think the "misinformation" is? If not, then your contribution is little better.
If you really don't know the answer Jack Sprat then I guess I will...

Jetstar have led the way, recently announcing a plan to cut pilot labour costs by hiring crew for several new Australian-registered A330 aircraft, operated under Australian Air Operator's Certificates, out of Singapore where they will employ air crew on wages well below their Australian-based colleagues.
Aircraft operating on the Australian AOC is a temporary measure only.

While they are offering the jobs to Australian pilots first, albeit on contracts that cut basic remuneration by almost 50 per cent, the remaining positions will be filled out of Singapore and Vietnam.
Reference to cut in remuneration is a blatant lie - do the maths...

What Joyce is trying to do is to distract the public gaze from the real point of contention, which is having an Australian carrier operating on Australian routes, but having employees paid "Asian rates" through artificially manufactured overseas bases.
One route will be Australian - Singapore/Melbourne. The next planned routes are not.

A pilot operating within a seniority system has no incentive to take risks or break the rules to appease management and increase their chances of promotion.
No, they just do it in a seniority based system because they think they know better than management, the Operations Manual and FCOMs...

Secondly, Jetstar has demonstrated that, while WorkChoices may be "dead and buried", the new Fair Work Act can be circumvented and draconian workplace conditions can be imposed through the use of foreign "bases of convenience", allowing Australian operations to be staffed with people on Third World wages and working conditions.
Please name all of those people in the Third World who get paid just under $10,000 a month for doing absolutely no work, which is what this 'dreadful Singapore deal' guarantees.

These are just a few - read the article again and see if you can pick out some of the others...
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