gross, excessive, greedy , page-12

Webzone 10,

There you go ahead, quoting the newspapers as a tried and trusted source. How gullible you must be to believe that the pilots (who are asking for something like a 2.8% wage rise) are going to cost the company an extra $317m. That is simply fanciful stuff. If $317m equates to 2.8% of the current pilots wage bill, I would hate to see what 100% equates to, mind boggling stuff really!

It is so easy to try and convince others that QAN and A Joyce are on the right track in knocking these increases on the head when you sprout such numbers, and if $317m were true, I might agree with you that it needs to knocked on the head, but the fact is you are not correct, and your post is misleading to say the least.

Keep to the real figures webzone10, and then present your argument, we can then all decide for ourselves who is driving this company offshore, management or the unions as you have claimed in the past.

You talk about all their demands (pilots and engineers) as though making demands in a wage negotiation was a crime. FYI, making claims when negotiating a new EBA is standard fair these days, and it is worth adding that a less than 3% wage rise is hardly what I would call excessive or greedy. Now 71%, 62%, that is a different story. How my friend, going on the performance of QAN and the lack of any return to the shareholders in the form of dividends, can such a pay rise be justified?

Surfrat.