Top bosses' riches are undeserved
Alan Joyce, the CEO of Qantas, which has a near-monopoly over air travel in Australia, has hit the headlines with his $5 million pay packet. But he is far from the highest paid CEO in Australia.
There is no doubt in my mind we will see the end of Joyce and Clifford much quicker than it feels today for many of the Q staff. In the above photo we see a that jaw lock photo (again, he must hate it) and we will see it in time as his trademark photo.... now on the right we see the story
Qantas says grounding warning given
THE two main parties are accusing each other of having prior knowledge of plans by Qantas to ground its fleet and cripple the nation, while the airline says it would not have stopped flying had the government used a different section of the relevant act to terminate the dispute.
The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, who has been slamming the government for sending the dispute to the industrial umpire instead of terminating it immediately using special powers, found himself on the backfoot yesterday when he refused to say when he first knew Qantas was harbouring such a plan.
The government accused Mr Abbott of a cover up. It noted that he first called for government intervention on Friday, the same day the Liberal premiers of NSW and Victoria made that call, and the day before the grounding.
''Was Mr Abbott, his office or any colleagues in his party involved in an orchestrated campaign in the lead-up to this announcement?'' the Transport Minister, Anthony Albanese, asked. ''Mr Abbott is almost alone in refusing to be critical at all of Qantas's decision.''
Mr Albanese was told by the Qantas boss, Alan Joyce, at 2pm on Saturday that the fleet was to be grounded in three hours. He was told that the decision had been taken and was a fait accompli. Mr Albanese has repeatedly said that despite frequent meetings with Mr Joyce in the previous days, Mr Joyce never signalled grounding the fleet and locking out the workforce. Mr Joyce again contradicted this yesterday.
Basically I believe as the video suggests Qantas management self inflicted the damage to itself... why, because they have embarrassed all in Canberra and the Australian public will not like another waterfront styled dispute which smashed the unions at that time, Gillard would be scared witless as she always blamed the Liberals for the heavy handed tactics used in the waterfront dispute. This time around people are a wake up to Freehills (is that how they spell it?) heavy handed style, they won't like it. Qantas can't afford to lose anymore customers after last weekends debacle... think about it.. AJ has painted himself into a corner already.
In my view, all Qantas unions must center their next action in front of these lawyers office's and name them in public, promote the line Save our Qantas, these lawyers are working to destroy Australian jobs advising AJ and LC. The lockout tactic last weekend is a good example of how these basta#ds think and work.
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The punters who fly with Q will not like to see what these faceless suits advised in the past get away with it again. I bet freehills advised AJ not to go on the 7.30 report twice this week.
take another look a this video, and listen again what a punter says about AJ,
a pretty good consistent example of what I have been hearing over and over again from common garden variety Australians regarding AJ and the Qantas management. One thing faceless men hate is being exposed to the real world.
I bet one of the trolls on here work for Freehills......
Lets expose them to the general public before it is too late. They can't take us all to court, the beaks will get sick of their narrow tactics.
As a rule lawyers are good for society, corporate (faceless) lawyers are different, they get paid whether their clients win or lose, just look at parliament today, both Gillard's and Abbott's lot, most lawyers were acting like little children over the Qantas issue. The funny thing is, Gillard was the one who set up FWA but at the end of the day was scared to use it as "it opened a minefield of legal issues, uncharted waters" typical lawyer speak...
People are hurting, LC's timing is not good, Dixon got away with it, took the money and ran, AJ won't be so lucky, he is not liked and he is already exposed.