Speaking for myself i have always found licensed maintenance engineers to be very down to earth ,dedicated, knowlegable people and certainly not the sort to cry wolf, if their concerned id be inclined to listen.
No doubt the moves to outsource work away from Oz is one which is causing emotions to run high and hardly suprising, if my job was being outsourced to Asia id be a tad concerned, but quite what that got to do with the point in question im not sure