MERGED: Qantas grounded effective immediately.
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Perth? It is currently over run with Canberra-types due to CHOGM. Rather amused that the flights have shut down - I could lend them my bicycle to go home with. Take some water . . . . . .
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Well done Qantas Board - you've just made the biggest mistake in its 90 year history!!..Talk about shooting yourself in both feet!!..Running to the Government because you can't talk to unions - grow some backbone!!!!..
Lets face it folks, this fight is between the union bashing Chairman against 35000 loyal employees.AJ is the puppet..
My congats to the 1.5 billion shareholders who voted for these Meglomaniacs in yesterdays AGM..Well done Institutional Investor Fund Managers..
To pull this stunt just after the AGM - Nice move LC and Co.
Lets face it folks, this fight is between the union bashing Chairman against 35000 loyal employees.AJ is the puppet..
My congats to the 1.5 billion shareholders who voted for these Meglomaniacs in yesterdays AGM..Well done Institutional Investor Fund Managers..
To pull this stunt just after the AGM - Nice move LC and Co.
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Parabellum, seriously, your trying to pick a religious fight now?
In the great big scheme of things this is a storm in a tea cup.
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Mach082, thanks but I don't understand why the lockout is from Monday, yet flights are obviously (confirmed, people are being virtually being kicked off flights this afternoon) being cancelled now. Why not say it's being grounded now? This is absolutely bizarre.
Okay, thanks QueenBzzzz. I get it now. People will be even more pissed now.
Okay, thanks QueenBzzzz. I get it now. People will be even more pissed now.
"The government should buyback Qantas"....now there's an idea.
And perhaps at the same time buy back everything else that belongs to us that were sold off by previous governments to create budget surplus.
Australia has been raped pillaged and destroyed by big business and is mired in a lack of infrastructure 50 years behind its population.
Too much of that which should belong to the people is held for profit making of a few.
When you buy back Qantas, buy back the public airports, the airways, the roads, essential utilities and transport systems, run them for the people, not for profit.
And perhaps at the same time buy back everything else that belongs to us that were sold off by previous governments to create budget surplus.
Australia has been raped pillaged and destroyed by big business and is mired in a lack of infrastructure 50 years behind its population.
Too much of that which should belong to the people is held for profit making of a few.
When you buy back Qantas, buy back the public airports, the airways, the roads, essential utilities and transport systems, run them for the people, not for profit.
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They are using the terms "grounded" and "locked out" as two totally different terms. They need to ground ASAP due to emotional response. Will this buy them more time with the government intervention? Sounds like they knew an intervention was imminent when making this decision. Sorry, just relaying info from Crew Voice....
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History repeats itself this is a re run of the Robe lockout 1986 and the outcome of that was not pretty for the unions.
Certainly now the industrial laws are somewhat different , but in the end the shareholders will win if they hold their nerve.
The courts must endorse "management has the right to manage" as a fundamental legal principle.
This dispute will come down to who has the deepest pockets.
Certainly now the industrial laws are somewhat different , but in the end the shareholders will win if they hold their nerve.
The courts must endorse "management has the right to manage" as a fundamental legal principle.
This dispute will come down to who has the deepest pockets.
Mach082, thanks but I don't understand why the lockout is from Monday, yet flights are obviously (confirmed, people are being virtually being kicked off flights this afternoon) being cancelled now. Why not say it's being grounded now? This is absolutely bizarre.
The management have to protect the assets in case they need to be liquidated - or so their theory would seem to go.
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Richard Woodwood is presenting himself very, very well on ABC News 24. If nothing else, this is getting some people air time that should have had it weeks ago.
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Joyce is fiddling while QANTAS and its workers (all its workers if he pursues this course), not to mention the passengers, burn. Like other dictators before him, his delusions delude him into blaming employees for "trashing the brand".
Stick together and call his bluff people!
Stick together and call his bluff people!