Get over it, some commentators are uninformed.
Belly,
fair enough. Can you please let us know how much baggage handlers get paid all up allowances included ? How do their wages compare to a store man handling goods ?

Just heard the news about the fleet grounding. Get into position to watch the investment rats getting off the good ship Qantas as the shares cop a bashing.

Individual.....QANTAS shares are going down as we speak, but the hard line the CEO,s want to take, will cost them dearly. See, the numbers I put above is what one can get on unemployment benefits, and the inventive family man can live better than working for the likes of Qantas. There profits margins are huge and the public only gets the doctored figures. ( corruption!...why do you think the world is in such a mess...GREED! )

Qantas are some of the lowest wages good people have to put up with, and like I told belly a while ago, Australian workers wont back each others play.;;;( but I think their learning:) )

In and out of Centre link doors for life and not knowing the security back when there was some. Yes, now thanks to the likes of QANTAS CEO,s, no-one can plan or rest easy, and that's what they want....WHY? So you have to grovel and take work-place agreements and alike.

Capitalist/CEO,s are the new Hitlers, and we know what happen with that:) The profits belong to all and not just the self appointed dictators of the greedy bank-rupted world we have today.

Socialism is the only way to stop them.

Enjoy.

CACTUS

The next few days will be quite interesting to say the least.

It is hard to work out what the Qantas management strategy is all about as no matter what there will be a lot of damage to the brand as they call it.

I have a feeling that this will be the end of the airline as such. If Qantas continues to fly in the future it will be a much smaller organsiation.

I also suspect those making the decisions have little national pride when it comes to the airline and are not willing to accept that there is an element of national pride when it comes to Qantas despite it now being a private entity. This national pride has a cost without doubt but those in power and shareholders are obviously not willing to pay that price no matter the amount.

This is business today. We may have to accept it but we certainly do not have to like it.

Take it easy.

SD

*This national pride has a cost without doubt but those in power and shareholders are obviously not willing to pay that price no matter the amount.*

Its not those in power or the airlines, Shaggy dog. Its the public
buying airlines tickets. Fact is that the international section
of Qantas was losing 200 million$ a year. People will clearly not
pay the higher ticket prices it needs, to pay some of the highest
wages on the planet, as paid to Qantas staff. And if people won't
pay, then its pointless Qantas losing that kind of money each year.
Much better to shut that section down completeley. Its called
sensible business practise.

Belly, so much for your imformed opinion of this strike being
nearly over :)

It's not so much th wages these people get paid, but rather the allowances and penalty rates that cause the problems.

The fact is we demand a seven day society, yet, we on the other hand wish to be paid fo the privilege.

Unfortunately, our IR laws are now starting to bite hard.

Hav you been to a restaurant lately and seen the poor value for money no on offer.this is simp,y due to IR laws, as the only way for restaurants to make money today is to cut cost elsewhere.

They charge $30 for a steak, which they paid less than $6.00 for. Why! Because they have no choice.

A much better way would be to add a surcharge on public holidays and Sunday's, thats on almost everthing but the government won't have it, hear in QLD anyway.

This idear of placing h burden on business must stop, or you risk having far less jobs out there.

Don't believe me, just keep pushing and we will see who is right.