Unions taking harder line with Qantas
Aircraft and airline workers union members of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association’s have voted the “members first” group into power, taking 15 of the 16 positions available, demonstrating the engineeering members’ view of Qantas’ erosion of their jobs and rights, with the election victors vowing to take a harder line on industrial action.
The result will be substantial changes at the Union’s senior Federal level, including President, Vice-President and Secretary with these changes follows similar landslide victories among the unions that represent flight attendants and pilots.
It is anticipated that the new team at ALAEA will take a much tougher stance in response to Mr Dixon’s restructuring plan that their predecessors with the support for taking a hard line having increased substantially after Qantas’ announcement to transfer wide-body heavy maintenance operations from Sydney to Brisbane and Victoria with the net loss of 340 jobs in Sydney.
It is also anticipated that the potential for industrial action affecting travel will now increase with Qantas under increasing pressure to provide details of any additional plans to cut costs, following Mr Dixon’s warning that full year profits will slump by 27% and further job cuts if fuel prices, which have added an estimated $1b to costs this year and were expected to do the same in 2006/2007, remained at current high levels.
Report by The Mole
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