“You also need to be honest and say the unions and staff have to accept that the world has changed so we can't go back to the past.”
Very true. One of the key problems going forward for QF will be the continuing unrealistic expectation the wider employee group still clings to.
Look no further than the Pprune thread closed recently entitled “QF staffing”. The poster posed a reasonable question that appeared genuine regarding the costs, work practices and lack of contract labor within QF only to be locked out rather rudely by the Pprune moderator. What chance do we have of rational debate?
Again, QF, like any Australian company is not in the business of providing jobs. The sooner the wider Australian public accepts this the sooner we can push the country back into the global market place.