Sure not every view expressed here is correct and in some cases they are highly suspect re logic,but lets hope the senators give the Rat a lesson in business ethics in a way that demonstrates to some of the decision makers that the means does not justify the end.
DJ is a completely different animal to the Rat but what some are grabbing onto is the fact that it is not the role of either a Board or CEO to totally alienate almost the entire workforce and loyal customers and destroy years of technical competence developed through vast experience banks without damn good reasons.Undeveloped plans and deceptions do not fall into that category.
If the Rat is in the place as alleged at this time, it got there by a process that was essentially dictated by or agreed by prior management and employees, so a competent management team would work out a way to evolve with its workers rather than just lay the entire blame on the workers.
If we are at this precipice then it is because those responsible failed to act to evolve in an economically rational way before revolution was necessary. ie the Executive and Board failed to fulfill their own responsibilities.
As I have said on many occasions, never have I seen a management team that has been perceived to have mislead so many and get away with it and with such breathtaking levels of arrogance.The public dont like that and that is why there is so much contempt being shown for the Company at this time.
Perhaps all of the above explains why JB was treated so differently and at the risk of alienating some, perhaps justifiably so.
The Qantas brand is an asset of the Australian economy and not for the benefit of a select few to play with as they see fit.
There is more to this than shareholder profits.What came from the QSA discussion in the senate was that the current actions are not consistent with the intent of the legislation and the Rat is playing the game by its own interpretation of the rules which is probably correct but not consistent with what was intended at the time that Qantas was deemed the national carrier.
Time to fix that up.