Qantas and unions go head to head
The escalating row between Qantas and the union movement continues to fester with reports that eleven of the flying kangaroo’s unions – including engineers, check-in staff, pilots and flight attendants – have signed up for a joint website to raise public awareness of issues at the airline.
As the airline continues to monitor maintenace operations and consider moving work offshore, the unions hope to use the web to forge closer ties with unions representing Qantas staff overseas. They want to present a more united front against Qantas as it restructures its operations to offset rising fuel costs.
“We’re not trying to harm Qantas’s brand but we’ll certainly be raising issues of concern to the unions collectively through that website,” said ACTU aviation spokesman Richard Watts.
“One possibility is that we will have lists of those planes which are serviced overseas and we’ll link that back to the flight schedules so (travellers can see) whether their plane is serviced in Australia or overseas.”
In a more dramatic development, the office of one of the unions repreenting Qantas workers was broken into over the weekend, with files ransacked and possibly photocopied.
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