Posted by Jetro6UL
Those jobs will be with the "Bill Smith Ground Support Co" who will win the contract by chopping the floor out from under the current staff and making nearly all positions part time/casual.....
I do understand that the "Bill Smith Ground Support Co" already exists in the form of QGS (Qantas Ground Services) and its role is to undercut the Qantas employees in the Ramp/Baggage handling areas. My comments in the earlier post was about offshoring jobs and I hadn't expanded to including the outsourcing of jobs as well.
Joyce's selection of words at the Senate Inquiry (over 90% of maintenance is done in Australia) conveniently omits the fact that it is not Qantas engineers doing all that maintenance but is largely done by MROs such as Forstaff, JHAS etc. Outsourcing has been a trend for quite a while and most of us regret not drawing a line in the sand during earlier EBAs.