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More misery for Qantas passengers as flights canceled

World Oct. 10, 2011 - 01:30PM JST ( 6 )

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Elbuda MexicanoOct. 10, 2011 - 11:40AM JST

Time for the Qantas management to settle a deal with their emplyees ASAP!!!
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anglootakuOct. 10, 2011 - 02:41PM JST

Qantas is garbage, they had a hole several times open up in mid-flight! what kind of airline brushes over maintenance safety before flights... pathetic.. not to mention crap food and service on top of it..
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Spidapig24Oct. 10, 2011 - 02:56PM JST

“The airline is playing dirty pool with our members by threatening them for taking lawful industrial action,” ALAEA Federal Secretary Steve Purvinas said.

Typical union response, yes the industrial action was legal under the FWA rules. However QANTAS's actions are also legitimate, they can elect to not pay workers for the duration of the stop work action. So it seems the unions are happy to affect tens of thousands of passengers with their on and off strike tactics but when threatened with no pay during their strike action they cave.

Pathetic unions killing Australian business as usual.
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mrsynikOct. 10, 2011 - 06:12PM JST

The misery starts when you foolishly select Qantas as your airline of travel. They haven't been worth flying since they were privatised in the mid '90's.
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YuriOtaniOct. 11, 2011 - 05:55AM JST

Spidapig24, yea blame everything on the unions. Without unions the employees make slave wages, look at the American right to work (fire) states. All they care about is making more and more money for themselves. They do not care about their employees. Unions need to go out on strike, full time, picket, etc. The pilots land their planes all over Asia and walk. It will take a full shutdown to get managements attention.
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Spidapig24Oct. 11, 2011 - 07:42AM JST

YuriOtani

Spidapig24, yea blame everything on the unions. Without unions the employees make slave wages, look at the American right to work (fire) states.

Oh sorry Yuri, l didnt realise that you had worked in Australia and had dealings with Australian unions firsthand. Maybe you should look up the number of jobs lost from Australia because of ridiculous wage claims by unions. Manufacturing in Australia is almost dead because of this.

All they care about is making more and more money for themselves. They do not care about their employees.

Oh really and you know this how exactly, have you ever worked in Australia? I will give you an example of a company l used to work for, the employees where on a base hourly rate of $32 per hour plus shift allowance plus a minimum of 12 hours over time per week, plus 5 weeks annual leave, plus 10 days sick leave, plus an RDO ever 2 weeks. They also had insurance paid by the company if they injured themselves away from work and had to have time off. The work was not hard and conditions very good. Then the union demanded more, guess what happened? The company downsized and moved overseas. Why? because it became too expensive to operate in Australia. So who was being greedy and this is not an isolated case l could name dozens of companies in the same boat, the latest being Toyota. So really l dont think you know what your on about.

Unions need to go out on strike, full time, picket, etc. The pilots land their planes all over Asia and walk. It will take a full shutdown to get managements attention.

Yeah so you obviously know how the laws regarding strikes in Australia work? Obviously by this statement you dont