Qantas staff “worried about safetyâ€
SYDNEY – A majority of Qantas’ maintenance workers believe “corners are getting cut” at Australia’s flagship airline.
But a spokesman for Qantas management dismissed the claims, accusing the union of regularly bringing up safety issues whenever they were in wage negotiations.
The workers claim Qantas’ move to send some of its maintenance tasks offshore has required Australian-based crews to routinely recheck the work and, in many cases, redo it completely.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) conducted the survey of 200 Qantas workers across facilities in Sydney and Brisbane, and at Tullamarine and Avalon airports in Victoria.
The poll comes after a spate of safety-related incidents involving Qantas’ planes, including July’s midair explosion of a 747’s oxygen bottle that forced an emergency landing in Manila.
A union official told AAP, “Our members are extremely concerned about the damage to the safety reputation of Qantas, built up by hard work over the years that is now in danger of being undermined.”
The poll found 83 per cent of the workers were “worried about safety” at the airline because of staffing pressures and the off-shoring of maintenance work.
Ian Jarrett
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