Forstaff Avalon
 

How long before the rest of the company shuts shop????

Now that the 737's and 767's have been pulled of the maintenance plan there and with 2 months left of the 744 re-config project.........might be all done by November!!!!!

Jethro,

Have you got more information on this.?

Qantas has oversight at Avalon and it would be good to know if this cascades to Qantas staff. :sad:

Qantas staff have already been told they want some to take VR the end is getting closer as each day goes by.

So how did you find this out, Jethro
When did it occur and why? (Why is probably obvious)
What's the final date?
Have the Forstaff employees been told?

Qantas very tight lipped about Avalon,sometime a lot of work coming to Avalon,now Forstaff management sacked and aircraft pulled out of Avalon,management not saying anything.rumours is by November 180 jobs gone

Makes the C check jobs getting dropped on 747-400 A checks in Sydney lately seem like this is happening.

Forstaff
 

Several admin and payroll staff have been let go too as I have found out.
No advice from Forstaff yet and morale is rock bottom.
With the work moved to other locations, this leaves a lot of people to do only a little work.
When the going gets tough...... the management abandon the employees. :mad:

Forstaff
 

Lets face the facts the payroll girl is running it now and there have been so many problems with payroll over the years the end is near .

All those years ago when Avalon was set up as an "overflow" facility for the work Sydney HM weren't able to handle because of too much work. Now Avalon has overflowed and is sending its work away, only to follow the same path as Sydney HM and Tulla HM.

What a pack of xxseholes management are. No that's too good a term, as xxseholes are useful to expel the crap out of the system. Management are what's expelled from xxseholes.

Things get a "little" clearer after today's EK tie up. With FRA gone how many 744's does that free up....5-6?? Early retirement most likely. AVV now goes from little to no work very quickly

Avlon
 

"Hasta la vista, baby" The end is so close you can smell it in the air at Avalon.
Maybe that should be "Asta la vista baby " been there done that before.:ugh:

Jethro, and everyone else at AVV, look after yourselves and those around you!
Good luck and take care!

New Manager whats new is old
 

Con's bark was always bigger than his bite. Anyone with some basic knowledge of our Industry and what we do could run circles around him with little effort.

Trouble is what you can or could do means little to him I just hope you don't think we are going to get 3rd party work because that's never going to happen he is here for one purpose to finish it all up .

Correct Jethro.

Con will be there to close the doors after the last person has departed. Lindsay Fox will turn off the lights.

Con's job is just to babysit the troops until it's all over.

Win Big
 

Now Qantas Staff are being marched off Site .
There is Good news though the Alaea are running a Photo Competition so Photograph a Sacking and win Big.:ok:


1st Prize - $100 Bunnings Voucher

2nd Prize - $50 Bunnings Voucher

3rd Prize - $30 I-Tunes Voucher

Yes Jethro. Whilst companies do things to employees that we don't like, unions will still run as they always have. The ALAEA will run an Industry photo competition so we have some nice shots on file for the leaflets we distribute to promote our industry creating jobs for our members.

The AWU and AMWU will also run as normal. They will take union member money to donate to the Labor Party to create jobs for a very select few of their members in Canberra.

I know the fedsec doesn't need a cheer squad to back him up but Jethro, face reality.

The ALAEA do not run Qantas. They're a union. Qantas is the one systematically closing down the aviation infrastructure that was built up over multiple decades and gifted to them.

If you want to play a silly game of blaming everyone else except the elephant in the room, how about this.. Avalon only existed to undercut Sydney Heavy Maintenance and the decades of quality product there. You only have a job because hundreds of Sydney employees either lost their jobs or had to relocate away from friends and family to stay in an industry that doesn't lend well to transference of skills.

What Avalon did to Sydney, the Phillipines are doing to Avalon.

The ALAEA had no say in either of these decisions, its Qantas picking the undercutter over its local staff. Qantas didn't employ their current crop of management to feel nostalgic about local ability or embrace the history of excellence.

My suggestion is if you want to work on jets, move to Brisbane. Spend less time on pprune criticising someone that has nothing to do with CEO level decisions. And finally PPRUNE isn't a dear diary sook fest, get over it - we all know by now how hard done by you are, complaining more does nothing.