@peuce, who said: "..As landlords, our responsibility is to maintain our asset. As you are obviously about to expand your re-location exercise, with the potential for more damage to the asset, we have no other option than to terminate your lease.
Yours faithfully
All Australians"
What arrogance. A quick poll of 5 people here in our office shows that 5 out of 5 think you are talking out of your anal orifice. You certainly don't speak on our behalf.
David1300,
we have discussed issues before and very much agree to disagree. There are those, the minority, who unfortunately hold the majority of shares in all facets of the investment world that would like nothing more than to shut down a company because it is in difficulty, but pushed over the edge by management that decided to have a Saturday afternoon hissy fit and cost not only its own company money, but every other business in the country and the world relying on QF's business.
This one action alone of shutting down an airline without notice, far outweighs any pay increases that were being sought by the three combined unions over the period of their respective agreements. As for job security, management have just given themselves an uppercut and will hopefully be ejected from the board at 40,000ft.
If all the energy of the management in fighting its workforce was put to producing a better relationship with them and finding ways to get better productivity out of the workforce, we wouldn't have the mess we have. If the money spent by management fighting its workforce was put to paying them an increase of 3%-5%, people would continue to work, knowing they will have a job in a few years time. When uncertainty and undue stress is placed on a company's workforce and then threatened with a lockout with no pay, that does not bode well with the staff.
The only people to gain job security from QF management's poor decision last Saturday will be the teams of lawyers and barristers barracking for each of their teams and arguing their cases, meanwhile, passengers have deserted the airline, the airline will continue bleed even further and job losses will be more imminent than ever. And for what?
Apart from the actual $ losses to QANTAS due this dispute, their reputation I believe is not beyond repair, but far from it and will take many years to recover, but in the absence of the current board of QANTAS.
I don't believe that the 5 people in your office are an overwhelming majority of the country's opinion on the matter, and it is obviously 5 like-minded people's opinion in one office.
I also am not speaking on your behalf.