Cast your mind back to the last time Qantas engineers striked, you might also remember around that time Qantas engineering lost 60% of their work to another provider. Air New Zealand and Cathay Pacific dumped Qantas because they couldn't work with a group that will strike and threaten their business.
Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Qantas's customers such as Air NZ (among almost all) were given notice by Qantas management that the service was to be terminated with a notice period.
Cathay employ their own engineers in Australia, so for Qantas to lose that contract those engineers must've been wreaking havoc.
There's always 2 sides mate. Qantas have been going broke since GD ruled supreme and they still are today.
Qantas engineers are paid less then Jetstar engineers for comparable licence types and Jetstar engineers are paid about 25k/year less then Virgin engineers for comparable licence types.
Somehow our 3%/year claim = 46% or whatever it is lately. Any wonder PIA vote got up 80% yes.