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What'sinaname
Joined: 29 May 2010 Location: Living rent free
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Not too much longer before the pulse stops and Qantas goes the way of Ansett Airlines. _________________ Fighting against the objectification of woman. |
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think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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Shit then we only got the budget ones and Emirates!! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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They'll wind up Qantas as a company and transfer the assets and money to Jetstar where their costs are a lot less.
Effectively, Qantas will be rebadged and the employees will get shafted.
Going to be an interesting standoff. Are the unions pig headed enough to let this happen? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Black_White
Joined: 19 Mar 2001
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Don't think the employees/unions have much say anymore.
The decision has been made and the boss has been paid an extra 70% to get it done.
The world's oldest commercial airline is being shafted by a Pom. |
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pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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^I'm not so sure "shafted" is the word, though. It's a private company; how else are they supposed to compete in the global market? _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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Magpie Jack
Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Location: Bribie Island, on the Collingwood Coast
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Black_White wrote: | is being shafted by a Pom. |
Actually I think he's Irish. It amazes me how a CEO could ground an airline without notice when it is illegal for a Union to take such action. He's done it deliberately to coincide with the Spring Carnival. I hope he gets the sack. _________________ Bob Rose....the measuring stick of humanity |
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Black_White
Joined: 19 Mar 2001
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So Joyce is going to face the Australian public to put his position.
What program do you think he will appear on?
ABC's insiders?
9's 60 minutes?
ABC's 7;30?
Ten's 7pm project?
No, he's going to be on Bolt!!!!
Doesn't look like he wants to have a real interview. Why go on a program with a known union/Government basher? Unless you need to avoid the hard questions. |
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think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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poms dont shaft nobody, its us who always get shafted _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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MJ23
Joined: 28 Feb 2011 Location: Sydney
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Magpie Jack wrote: | Black_White wrote: | is being shafted by a Pom. |
Actually I think he's Irish. It amazes me how a CEO could ground an airline without notice when it is illegal for a Union to take such action. He's done it deliberately to coincide with the Spring Carnival. I hope he gets the sack. |
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isnt that what the unions have been doing.
The level of notice allows for nothing.
They were not happy with the agm, said they would ramp up the strike action they had already been taking.
Qantas are being asked by the unions to slowly go broke with their demand's. Industry experts - not Qantas aligned - have stated that if the dispute were to go to arbitration the unions would loose.
Under the current act, there is no action Qantas can take other than ongoing "talks" that have snap strikes as bargining chips. _________________ "Even when Im old and gray, I wont be able to play but Ill still love the game"
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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Not sure if it's a good thing or not. Hope it'll create space for another budget airline to keep dragging the prices down. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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MJ23
Joined: 28 Feb 2011 Location: Sydney
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^think thats the point David.
Budget airline means low costs.
under the current demands, Qantas cant and wont compete. _________________ "Even when Im old and gray, I wont be able to play but Ill still love the game"
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Magpie Jack wrote: | Black_White wrote: | is being shafted by a Pom. |
Actually I think he's Irish. It amazes me how a CEO could ground an airline without notice when it is illegal for a Union to take such action. He's done it deliberately to coincide with the Spring Carnival. I hope he gets the sack. |
No it's not illegal.
Unions are allowed to take industrial action under law, employers are allowed to employ lockouts. Both are legal tactics.
Irrespective of that, this is going to end in tears. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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watt price tully
Joined: 15 May 2007
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I think what gets up a lot of people's noses is the executive salary of the CEO has gone up a whopping 70% while demanding his workforce work for less at a time when Qantas has had a 70% downturn on its financial performance. _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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Pied Piper
Joined: 20 May 2003 Location: Pig City
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^ Yes. Have already referenced that in the Occupy thread.
Not to mention that while he's been at the helm, the airline has had a string of near-disasters after it outsourced maintenance operations overseas - not that you'll find too many reminders of that in the Murdoch press.
Joyce has done a pretty good job of trashing the brand long before this trouble came to a head. _________________ "The greatest thing that could happen to the nation is when we get rid of all the media. Then we could live in peace and tranquillity, and no one would know anything." - Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen |
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Proud Pies
Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Location: Knox-ish
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Pied Piper wrote: | ^ Yes. Have already referenced that in the Occupy thread.
Not to mention that while he's been at the helm, the airline has had a string of near-disasters after it outsourced maintenance operations overseas - not that you'll find too many reminders of that in the Murdoch press.
Joyce has done a pretty good job of trashing the brand long before this trouble came to a head. |
^^^^ THIS ^^^^ _________________ Jacqui © Proud Pies 2003 and beyond |
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