There is a special place in Hell for The Qantas Board and Management.
The ABC have just published the following:
Qantas is refusing to confirm or deny reports it is about to cut 400 heavy maintenance jobs at Melbourne airport.
In February the company announced it was reviewing maintenance operations at Tullamarine, Avalon and Brisbane.
This morning the airline released a statement saying its "significantly reduced" aircraft maintenance schedule means three maintenance bases are no longer needed.
The statement said a decision on how many jobs would go would be made by the middle of this month.
This morning, Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association spokesman Paul Cousins told the ABC no decision on the job cuts had yet been made.
But he said up to 500 jobs could be lost as Qantas consolidated its workforce from three maintenance facilities to two or possibly even one.
I can state categorically that the deliberate and premeditated announcements followed by feigned vacillation over the decision amounts to mental cruelty to its employees, both those that may be directly affected in Engineering and for the rest who can expect similar calculated cruelty when their time comes.
The "meta message" here is that Qantas regards its employees as beneath contempt, otherwise they would not do things this way. The excuse that they are in a bargaining war for State Govenment investment cuts no ice, since such discussions can and do get held in private.
If the Federal Government and opposition weren't composed of low life scum sucking filfth that enjoy the Qantas Chairmans lounge, they would call Qantas out over its behaviour and put a stop to it.