ALAEA Fed Sec:
CASA call them Cat A LAME's. That is Cat A Licenced Aircraft Maintenance Engineers. The AME unions claim that they are not LAMEs. They are just AMEs with a Licence.
If this is the depth and sophistication of the AWU/AMWU/CEPU unions argument for justification of their desire to cover Cat A LAME's, then God help the Cat A LAME's. What a joke!
Do future Cat A LAME's really want these boneheads representing them?
Would you want them negotiating your starting wage and conditions of employment?
I suspect not. I expect any future Cat A LAME will join the ALAEA regardless of which union name appears at the top of the relevant industrial instrument.
If Cat A LAME's ever eventuate, they will realise that the ALAEA will be their best bet.
Good luck Steve. This whole case should be a no brainer, but once politics gets involved...