what really happens at qantas ??, page-15

and bossdog, shareholders want maximum profits at the expense of paying people a decent wage. and you probably wonder why the workforce at qantas is so heavily unionised ? qantas is a bully to its staff, its constantly undermining them, the engagement of their staff, through the unions that represent them is a pure consequence of management who have bullied, lied, basically treated the staff as an inconvenient expense rather than an asset.

leadership from the top in terms of a refusal to accept a 71% payrise until such time as its appropriate might do something to show the mere workers that its not just pure greed running the company.

the last time the management convinced the staff to accept a pay freeze for 12 months, the executive were rewarded with a massive bonus for doing so.

12 months ago when the unions started negotiating with qantas a gfc 2 was not on the horizon, its not a quick or simple process to get to an industrial action stage. it takes months, the new laws make it very prohibitive and defined. the current management are trying to destroy the unions, that is clear. they are willing to spend hundreds of millions of shareholder money to do so.

example ? they spent $160million the last time the engineers took protected industrial action to save $1.6million/year in pay rises over.

smart managemenet ?