Qantas to meet union chiefs today as IR rows worsen | The Australian
Qantas to meet union chiefs today as IR rows worsen
at Sat 27th Aug 12:09pm AEST
QANTAS chief executive Alan Joyce will meet senior union and ACTU officials today as industrial tensions at the airline grow.
Wow, finally he wants to talk, this is encouraging for all concerned.
Mr Joyce accused unions of wanting to go "back to the bad old days of the bully unions", and said Qantas was facing demands it had not seen before.
But unions called on the management to shelve plans to cut at least 1000 jobs and start an Asian airline, and said the profit result was at odds with claims Qantas International was doing badly.
"Qantas International is being made a scapegoat here to allow Mr Joyce to expand into Asia, offshore business operations and sack 1000 employees," Mr Purvinas said.
AIPA said the profit confirmed the value of the Qantas brand, and cast doubt on the Asian venture amid growing questions about the profitability of Qantas divisions.
Well done SP, your consistent messages always spot in the press no doubt has been a major factor for this sudden turn of events. In my view, Steve has served his members well when it counted in the last two weeks, for those who didn't see this video, the momentum turned against Joyce from this day on and SPs clever remarks hit a home run.
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