Originally Posted by
Roger Greendeck
Companies are in business to make money no matter where the majority of shareholders hale from. As a nation we need to assess what we are prepared to pay for. If we want Australian airlines to employ locally there will be some costs attached but I'm sure people employed in other industries would be up in arms if their jobs were offshored like ours.
Companies are outsourcing their IT and callcentre jobs overseas all the time, engineers are being flown in from overseas whilst thousands of willing graduates are waiting unemployed in the sidelines, virtually all of our manufacturing is done in China - pilots are not special snowflakes in this respect. If those industries are up in arms then either no one is listening, no one cares, or no one wants to pay extra to employ locals.
We don't need protectionism in our economy but we do need something.