Can somebody please explain to me how this works.
Under Fair work Australia laws the engineers have to give 3 days notice of any industrial action they wish to take. Qantas seem to be allowed to hold the whole workforce and the Australian public to ransom with absolutely no notice. The engineers have called off any industrial action for 3 weeks, so for Qantas to claim this is in reaction to their action is an out and out lie.
The board seem hell bent on damaging the brand at every opportunity, while making the unions the scapegoats for their actions. When the union called off its action to get the "retired" aircraft back into the skies, they sent a clear message to travellers that they did not want to be the ones to inconvenience them. Now Qantas go and do this and still try to blame the unions.
Seeing that picture of AJ makes my blood boil.