Troo and Variable I understand your feelings but your argument is wrong. Ford, Holden, Alcoa, etc. all have good employees like you and you are entitled to exactly the consideration as those employees received, no more and no less.
This is part of the problem, Qantas employees someohow feel that they are entitled to special treatment merely because they work for Qantas. Perhaps you might get more sympathy if you had consistnetly supported other industrial workers in the past. The irony of course is that your own management treats you with complete contempt.
Qantas is behaving like the school Prima Donna, demanding "special" treatment merely because they are Qantas. The treasurer needs to give them a foot up the backside and send them packing. If they go under, so be it. Others will take their place.
To put that another way, I think it is poetic justice if the great outsourcer finally gets outsourced by the Australian flying public. There are better airlines than Qantas. Management made their bed, now it's their turn to lie in it.