Roj stated,
Time to start lobbying your federal MP, the more this can be highlighted to them, the more chance we have of stopping this. Also, contact your Union, see what they can do.
Roj, both major parties, the NXT and even the greens support big 'Australia'; continued immigration on aircraft whilst continually telling you they
stopped the boats! (that is the real refugees).
The wages 'Accord' in the Hawke Keating era was designed to lower the real wage over time, thereby making Australia more 'competitive'. It was an interesting process, with a much modified CPI and nominal pay increases linked to the new CPI, most workers fell behind as real inflation was much higher.
457 visas are yet another instrument to keep pressure on wages and no politician of the modern crop of 'intellectual genius' will do a thing. Most of them are big property owners, so more population means more for them!
As for pilot unions, whilst certain labour unions (aviation) pushed back hard, at least one ignored the Skilled Occupations List and that is the reason in part that Aeroplane Pilot is on the list.
Whilst I agree with NN that Australia remains a
desirable place to work, the market does not work in a vacuum, there is more and more data supporting a genuine, demographic based skills shortage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/op...lots.html?_r=1
Employers will keep trying, sparing
no expense not to raise terms and conditions, certain ME carriers will raise quietly remuneration for new hires, as one is doing now but demand will be met when supply rises. Supply rises on the back of rising prices (salary)
As the President of ALPA states:
“The real problem the industry is facing is young people aren’t making the decision to become an airline pilot,” said Capt. Tim Canoll, a Delta pilot and president of the ALPA. “It takes a very motivated person to meet the physical, emotional and intellectual challenge of becoming a pilot, and that same motivated person does the math looking at what it takes and the return on investment, and it just doesn’t add up,” particularly when training costs alone can reach $150,000.
So give it time and you may well see, strategically thinking Asian carriers decide an Australian basing or genuine commuting contracts are a way to solve their supply. Globalisation in a vacuum benefits one side, but in the piloting profession where pilots are a commodity, the market is very much global.
