In some ways you all make a good point. The trouble is that the 80's slogan of
"greed is good" has never gone away. It has just been disguised and hidden, the results are now apparent with all the corporate failures we've seen in the past year or two.
I think with the admission that some execs in QF are going to get bonuses in the region of 50% when the airline is pushing for an EBA giving 3% a year with trade offs, makes a lot of us blooooody angry. The EBA negotiations are going to be tough.
However with the industrial laws we have now, the ability to take industrial action of any kind has diminished. I hate to say it, but '89 is still in the back of people's minds and with the aviation industry in it's current shape, it would be a lot easier for management this time around.
I'm happy to have a job but not so happy with the way things are going. I think we have been got by the short and curlies, damned if I know what the answer is.
