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Just woke up after another night shift ,got home,slept like a baby.No guilt! for the dramas that are unfolding within the QF network.My wife thinks that us engineers are a strange bunch.Going to work at the moment excited,dayshift or night shift,it doesn't matter,waiting for the next instalment of this saga.She has noticed the change in my attitude on days off.Not cranky just calm,relaxed and generally chilled out since the o/t ban started.Even though people are hurting with no o/t ,if we get the payrise we deserve that will cover any money that has been forgone with the o/t bans.Everyone hang tight, should'nt be long to go.With a few EBA's from different sections coming up for negotiation in the next few months QF managers will have to decide whether they want to run an airline,or run an airline into the ground.
I also believe the longer this goes on, the punters out there who fly with QF will see this not as a Union dispute with QANTAS but a QANTAS dispute with their unions
(Any chance I could get the alternative workforce list PM'd to me.)
I also believe the longer this goes on, the punters out there who fly with QF will see this not as a Union dispute with QANTAS but a QANTAS dispute with their unions
(Any chance I could get the alternative workforce list PM'd to me.)
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What an erudite, intelligent statement you have made! As I have stated previously, as an ex QF lame in the years before most of you perhaps were born, I am on your side! However, it pains me to see that around twenty or less of the correspondents on this thread, out of a total of 1,600 lames resort to personal attacks and gutter language to further your cause. 80-90%, I doubt it. Your vocal majority on this thread amounts to less than 10% of ALAE membership. Yes, MAINTAIN THE RAGE! and let 1989 history repeat itself. Please feel free to call me a "Troll".
Hotdog,your summation of current events is a simple matter of arithmatic.
Believe me when I say,agreed there may only be a "VOCAL" minority on pprune of less than 10%,but I can assure you the vast bulk of the 1600 hundred lames you mentioned are of the same belief.
For example,how many of those same 1600 hundred lames have broken rank and worked overtime, against the executive wishes,less than a handfull I would guess.
As someone else pointed out in the media the other week,
We are still being paid. LOL
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Some interesting developments in Perth today guys.
The manager has learnt what "call me back in 5 minutes" means.
It actually means, you call within 5 minutes. If you don't the union instructs its members to walk off there and then.
The manager has learnt what "call me back in 5 minutes" means.
It actually means, you call within 5 minutes. If you don't the union instructs its members to walk off there and then.
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Rose Bay woman Natalie, who did not want her last name revealed, said she had not yet been told how she was going to get home after Qantas flight QF580 was scrapped.
The airline is reeling today from a series of strikes by engineers over pay.
"We registered online yesterday for email alerts of delays and cancellations but we didn't receive any from Qantas," Natalie said.
The airline is reeling today from a series of strikes by engineers over pay.
"We registered online yesterday for email alerts of delays and cancellations but we didn't receive any from Qantas," Natalie said.
My deepest apoligies Natalie for missing your flight etc and I mean that sincerely.
Unfortunately you will be waiting a very long time for an apology from the man at the top because out of his own mouth,
"You are only a customer and do not matter,only shareholders (dwindling by the day),matter"
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Oh dear, here we go again!
Looks like the Engineers are going the same way as 89. (Dare I say it). Dixons attitude is the same as Hawke's, if you don't play the game we will stick the bat up your A#se everytime. A checks now going to the USA, serious, but not as serious as a full phase check, (where the A/C is on the blocks for about 4 weeks) which will surely follow, and that involves a lot of depts, and personnel, think long and hard fellas, you are giving him a reason to totally restructure, and he will take it, and that will go a lot further than the Engineers. THINK boys THINK. Don't end up in the S$#t like we did, really take it easy here, for your own sakes, test the water very carefully. Nobody denies you blokes do a great job, and nobody denies you don't deserve a pay rise, but right now, with the fuel prices going thru the roof and no relief in sight, do you really want to pack up and have to move the family somewhere else, JC I would hate to see you blokes go thru it. ( And this bastard is like a cat with a mouse)
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Mel H/M
Hey ! I'm just new at this guys, but I can confirm that several Mel H/M lame's have been dragged into the office and asked to work O/T.
For personal reasons they declined and were notified that there pay would be docked 2 hours as a consquence.
2 days latter the same guys were handed a notice saying that they would face dicsiplinary action and possible termination of their employment if they refused again.
Welcome to Paradise
For personal reasons they declined and were notified that there pay would be docked 2 hours as a consquence.
2 days latter the same guys were handed a notice saying that they would face dicsiplinary action and possible termination of their employment if they refused again.
Welcome to Paradise
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It actually means, you call within 5 minutes. If you don't the union instructs its members to walk off there and then.
oops, bad luck DICK, no more flights today......
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Well, well well! Just viewed the list and I must say, I am disgusted to the point of feeling sick at some of the names I saw. Some don't surprise me at all, others made me read twice!
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o/t bans cause how much damage?
I find it very hard to believe a so called top notch "bonus" earning management team relies so much on o/t to aquit so much of our work load.
Avalon guys at least most of us feeling too fatigued by it all to work o/t.
I'm 100% for 5% demand have been with qf long enough to go thru 0% 2 yrs in a row and see roll over for 3% every time to help out poor sar's infected company only to see yet more record profit's and record bonus given soon after.
Time at home with family instead of o/t and 4hr's stop work causing more damage than should be possible. keep up the good work.
Avalon guys at least most of us feeling too fatigued by it all to work o/t.
I'm 100% for 5% demand have been with qf long enough to go thru 0% 2 yrs in a row and see roll over for 3% every time to help out poor sar's infected company only to see yet more record profit's and record bonus given soon after.
Time at home with family instead of o/t and 4hr's stop work causing more damage than should be possible. keep up the good work.
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Enough
20 months wage negotiations have been going for this EBA, send it all overseas, close down engineering, let them do what they like, they are doing it anyway, just like they said Heavy Maintenance would stay in sydney, 3 months later they closed it all down......roll it on and stop winging about the price of fuel - everyone is hurting not just airlines!
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Mendero Is In For Some Big Legal Pain
Have seen this list and looks like Mendero will have a big legal problem, called a chap i know on the list and has nothing to do with this, he is pissed off big time.
Is suggest you idiots get your facts straight or be prepared to pay the consequences, looks like loosing 4 hours pay will be the least of Menderos problems, repeat make sure you are 100%
Defamation, can be costly.
Is suggest you idiots get your facts straight or be prepared to pay the consequences, looks like loosing 4 hours pay will be the least of Menderos problems, repeat make sure you are 100%
Defamation, can be costly.
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the FOG youtube campaign
just read this today, though i can find no such video..
has anyone seen this vid?
Amid strikes and cancelled flights, Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon is the target of a campaign on YouTube.
The video features a person dressed in Qantas hat and uniform, with his voice digitally altered and wearing a mask of Mr Dixon.
"This will be the first of a many part series that is going to be the FOD program - the F--- Off Dixon program," the actor says.
The video features a person dressed in Qantas hat and uniform, with his voice digitally altered and wearing a mask of Mr Dixon.
"This will be the first of a many part series that is going to be the FOD program - the F--- Off Dixon program," the actor says.
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Some interesting developments in Perth today guys.
The manager has learnt what "call me back in 5 minutes" means.
It actually means, you call within 5 minutes. If you don't the union instructs its members to walk off there and then.
The manager has learnt what "call me back in 5 minutes" means.
It actually means, you call within 5 minutes. If you don't the union instructs its members to walk off there and then.
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Domo,
Smartest comment yet on this site,
Mr Fed Sec are you saying you stopped the show in WA due to a phone call not being retuned within 5 minutes, wow thats some sort of power if thats the case.
Can you elaborate for all concerned on your post
Smartest comment yet on this site,
Mr Fed Sec are you saying you stopped the show in WA due to a phone call not being retuned within 5 minutes, wow thats some sort of power if thats the case.
Can you elaborate for all concerned on your post
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For the lads in Perth ,6pr 882 am is having a Qf boss on Howard Sattlers talkback show this arvo 4-6pm,thought some of you might like to call in and give your side as Im sure the Boss will be spilling some crap !!!
Ph 92211882 get into him !!!
Cheers and good luck ...
Maybe even contact the FED SEC and get him to call and roast him....
Ph 92211882 get into him !!!
Cheers and good luck ...
Maybe even contact the FED SEC and get him to call and roast him....