One of the keys to a Qantas revival is a very direct and if need be blunt level of communication. It must be honest. It must not be sugar coated. It must be consistent with all other communication.
Qantas needs to restructure, that is evident. That involves a lot of pain for a significant number of people. Prolonging it does no favours, a plan should be formulated, laid out and enacted.
Agreed. However there is an agenda and a strategy at play. The latest hysterics are about conflating a sense of crisis in order to create an appetite for ongoing change (or if nothing else - to justify change) among a battle-weary staff and union exec.
And I don't disagree that change is necessary. We are carrying way too much dead wood - some of it in the form of unnecessary exco and their furniture - but the whole way down the over-long chain.
For those that remain after the latest 1,000 are gone, the CEO et al are leading by example with a pay freeze. Expect the same demand in future EBA negotiations.