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cheese_cheese

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Yeah, Jetsar is owned by Qantas.

The problem with saying other airlines can make up for Qantas is that they can't actually. Qantas has protected routes (as it is designated Australians official carrier) and protected gates at airports etc. Other airlines can't just use their gates etc.
 

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Yes he owns Jet Star so he still knows that he's making money. He's trying to scare the Australian workers of Qantas to come back to their jobs, otherwise he'll outsource. Selfish, cause he just got a 5 billion dollar pay rise himself, and couldn't care less about the public.
 
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Why do you think they created JetStar in the first place?

It's a cheaper, outsourced version of Qantas, now they can just dump the main badge and have only the cheaper wages and conditions
 

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alan joyce never headed two other airlines you penk

he was a middle manager at Aer Lingus in ireland
he was senior management at Ansett and Qantas
he became CEO of Jetstar in 2003.
he has been CEO and managing director of QANTAS for 3 years.
he is/was a director in jetstar's asian operations

he is a man doing his job. airlines are some of the most ruthless industries in the world. what do you expect?
 

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posting copypasta without fact-checking:

At work tomorrow there is bound to be some ‘water cooler’ talk about the Qantas grounding. Please speak up and help spread the truth regarding the industrial disputes:

1) AIPA union have not and are not striking. Not a single pilot has striked and not a single pilot has caused any delays. The only action they have done is wearing red ties and passenger inflight announcements. They have been locked out for this behaviour.

2) The dispute regarding pilots is long haul only. Domestic short haul are not involved and their agreement isn’t up for renewal till next year. Yet, Joyce has locked them all out too. Grounding the most profitable part of Qantas, it’s domestic operations.

3) The dispute is NOT about pay, although all three unions are only asking for pay rises within CPI spread out over 3 years. The reason the ‘negotiations’ aren’t going anywhere is because the unions don’t want Qantas turned into a low cost Asia based airline, cut up and destroyed and an Australian icon ruined. The engineers and pilots are concerned about YOUR safety and the reputation and longevity of the Qantas brand which they are all very loyal too.

4) Alan Joyce was on the Ansett board and destroyed it and he’s doing the same to Qantas, don’t believe the media spin he is putting on things. The company is not in ‘dire’ circumstances as he claims, they have actually posted one of their best profits in the last decade, doubling their profit yearly. Also, if they were really in ‘dire’ circumstances, any decent leader would not have accepted a 71% pay increase like Joyce did on Friday. Yes he took his $5 million dollar pay and then less than 24hrs turned around and grounded the airline…. that’s taking your money and running in a whole new light isn’t it?!

5) The union strikes have caused a total of 6 hours of delays broken up into 1 hour blocks over months, Joyce’s grounding is going on 24 hours…. The union strikes all were done with 72 hours notice and with least impact to passengers, less than 3% of flights were effected. Joyce’s grounding has obviously affected 100% of flights. If you are pissed about your flight interruptions, Joyce is the man to be pissed at, not the unions!!!
 

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seriously who has industrial action to 'guarantee' their jobs in the future. ahahah what?
 

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fuck this gave me such a hard-on

fuck the unionz
 

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you know what would be the smart thing to do, qantas workers buying qantas shares

can't fuck over your workers when they also happen to be your shareholders

it'd be like punching yourself in the gut
 

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Losing more than a hundred million in 48 hours in order to avoid giving a pay increase, yeah way to go Qantas.
 

boris

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not giving a fuck

priceless

take that, union peasants
 

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$100m = price to stop perpetual striking over the coming months

$100m = putting 'union peasants' in their place

$100m well spent
 

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