QANTAS - Wake Up Australia!
QANTAS; just another corporate entity chasing profit at the expense of its workforce.
What’s missing within the QANTAS corporate rhetoric at present is the acceptance that there must be a balance drawn between the requirements of the employer and those of the employee.
The current management seeks the nirvana of controlling all costs to maximise business performance; profit. The nirvana is no balance at all. QANTAS does not control the cost of aircraft, fuel, airports, spare parts, etc. It’s only the workforce over which the company has any significant input to cost control. Within the current mind-set, as far as the management is concerned the employees are a tradeable commodity, an irritating fact of doing business that they’d love to do without.
Every employee in this country has a lot at stake within their continued employment; however it’s only shareholders that have the ear of management. Stakeholders are not recognised by corporate managements, regardless of the industry.
The Australian Dollar is now set for a lengthy period of stellar performance, a challenge for QANTAS and many other businesses and industries. The comparative cost of doing business with an Australian workforce is only going to become more skewed as time moves on. None of these circumstances however justify an attack upon Australian based employees, their conditions and continued tenure of employment. QANTAS management appears set to continue and escalate such attacks across its entire workforce, on the basis that it’s the only way to compete and remain profitable. The next best option is to find a cheaper workforce, so it’s off to third-world countries to have them do the work for you; export the jobs to Asia!
What the ALAEA is defending within the current industrial battle is the unjustified exporting of jobs. Without real justification, such action is immoral. The Pilot’s and Ground staff will be involved next, with a re-run of the same arguments by QF management.
There are tough times ahead for business managements and that’s going to require excellence in management. Alan Joyce and his management are going to have work smart instead of playing the old and tiresome game of industrial bullying, right down to the dated industrial rhetoric from the poison-pen of Olivia Wirth in the corporate communications department.
Wake up Australia!
Dragonfly