Comments on: Waterfront lawyer to put ‘outsourcing on trial’ in Qantas case

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 02:35:23 +0000

Waste of time and a Union breast beating exercise. Much of what said here completely irrelevant…

By: Warwick

Warwick — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 02:54:58 +0000

So the TWU’s going to WASTE members’ funds’ yet AGAIN, waging war against QANTAS.
How much is this bloke costing? $5000 a day at an minimum? Won’t take long to empty members’ coffers’ at that rate. They sure know how to use OTHER peoples’ money, ad infinitum.
The TWU has lost the last TWO court cases’ they brought against the Airline.
Now, they’ll lose a third, as the Company will win.

By: John Phillips

John Phillips — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:07:14 +0000

Buckley’s of getting that up. TWU posturing here to cover their poor leadership.

By: Gus Daffy

Gus Daffy — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:47:23 +0000

I also believe this decision has already been made & probably approved by govt so it’s probably already a forgone conclusion . We weren’t told in so many words but the basic intimation was work more hours for less money & poor conditions or find a job elsewhere . The current contractors are making job applicants pay for DG training , Police checks during the application process . I believe these requirements should be paid for by the contractor after the applicant has been selected as in all other Australian workplaces .

By: Gus Daffy

Gus Daffy — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:36:27 +0000

Qantas have already set a precedent when they took over Australian Airlines 29 years ago , made all Airport staff in Mackay & Rockhampton redundant .The time to battle was 29 years ago but nothing was done so I fear for all ground staff going to lesser paid , harder working with conditions slashed jobs.Good luck but I fear this is the way of the future .

By: Rod Pickin

Rod Pickin — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:23:07 +0000

It would be wrong to single out Qantas as the bad boy on the block here, – take a look about the whole country! we are getting new ferries from Indonesia. new trains from Korea, new cars from S.E Asia and just about everything else from China and the reason for all these imported “problems” is,- cost. We CAN produce the same goods and services here, probably even better than but our cost base is far too high so companies and employers have to explore more cost effective options which results in offshore production and outsourcing of services previously done in-house. It does beg the question though in the case of QF ground handling costings as quoted above. If by outsourcing those tasks there are savings of AU$103 Million/year is it possible that QF got the sums wrong in the first place.