Noted that QF has applied for approval of their AME EBA9 Agreement by FWA.
Hearing scheduled for 1000, Thursday 20 June 2013.
ALAEA has stated it will oppose the approval of the agreement, basically due to the A licence content it contains.
This runs the risk of delaying the payrise and backpay for the AME's
ALAEA proposes the following solution (quoted from their notice):
We know that our objection might delay approval of the Agreement and we propose to offer to Qantas that we have no objections to the rest of the Agreement applying, so long as Qantas do not apply the A licence parts of the Agreement until the FWC makes a determination whether those can be approved or not.
This means the responsibility of getting the bulk of the Agreement approved and the wage rises and back pay getting paid as soon as possible will rest squarely with Qantas and the other unions accepting our proposal.
Anyone had any feedback from the AME unions or QF about their possible response to the above scenario?
Is Bill Shorten expected to be in attendance?