I'll be straight with you, Unions are necessary, but the mainstream opinion right now (that could change) is that the Unions are 'holding Qantas to ransom'. And most people don't really care and just want to get home or go to work without disruption.
Opinion could easily be skewed the other way too, or could have been. Personal threats of violence etc to Qantas management along with tactical strikes designed to cause the most disruption is not helping win the
PR war.
I'm sorry, but most people (you would have to agree) want both groups to stop acting like children and sort it out.
It could be argued that you are both hell bent on mutual assured destruction. Now thats newsworthy!
NB. Please refrain from your patronising tone it you decide to respond to this. It is not clever and just makes you appear to be a bit of a bully. I'm sure that's not the case is it?