This is not new. Ansett and Australian management did the same thing in '89.
Qantas
PR are also copying the tactics used in '89 - bad unions, holding hard working Australians to ransom, etc,. etc,.
Difference here is the unions are carrying on with legal, protected industrial action sanctioned by Fair Work Australia.
Once the Airline starts locking out workers and pleading with the Government to step in, you KNOW they are on the back foot. They are losing this one and know it and are trying on shock tactics with the unions. They won't buy it and neither does the Government by the sound of Albanese.