Originally Posted by
aiming point
By pleading for suspension the Unions will have shot themselves in the foot and forever nullified their position.
The fight is now or never the unions did nothing wrong under their FWA sanctioned PIA. To argue for suspension is senseless, don't hand the Gov,the FWA and QF what they want on a silver platter...make THEM squirm and have to justify their decision to the workers of Australia.
A suspension or termination judgement by the FWA now will show them as little more than a worthless, toothless, Corporate puppet.....Justice Giudice announces his resignation on Thursday from the FWA, if this is not a foreboding sign, what is?
Concede now and it is a slam-dunk that the Unions will never be able to psychologically convince their memberships to go through this again.
To me this is the Unions giving up and is sending the wrong message, no matter how they try to spin it.
P.S. What is it about the QF Long-Haul pilots.....they seem to love letting other Unions go first and do the real dirty work and take the flak and if they don't like what they see its all finger pointing and "it was them not us" deserting the cause.
"All we were ever going to do was wear a red tie", geez grow a set will yas!
Fair comments aiming point.
I think the ACTU get a sense of that and that is why they said they reject the application flat out. They did however note that suspension would be their preference thereafter.