Post by corsair67 on Jan 16, 2006 16:14:56 GMT 12
Well, well: as suspected by many it seems that Air New Zealand isn't the only local airline looking at sending maintainence work to China!
Maybe if QANTAS culled off some of the overpaid show-ponies leading the company, then they'd save even more money? Yeah, as if that's going to happen!
Good luck to the Unions.
Article from Friday's 'The Australian'.
Unions to resist Qantas pay cuts
Steve Creedy, Aviation writer
January 13, 2006.
QANTAS maintenance unions have put to management proposals to cut engineering costs without sending work overseas.
Unions say they will not accept cuts to pay or conditions, despite the company's threats to outsource work and send thousands of jobs offshore if it can't get the cuts it wants in enterprise bargaining negotiations.
Union officials believe there are other ways to improve the efficiency of Qantas maintenance and say they have put a series of proposals on the table.
"We've said we're happy to look at costs but not on the basis of wages and conditions or concession bargaining," Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron said as talks resumed yesterday.
"We're happy to look at the quality of the work, how you get better delivery of on-time work, how you look at management systems and what the logistics are -- better stores and getting stuff to workers on time."
Qantas executive general manager John Borghetti this week singled out China as a potential beneficiary of any Qantas moves to outsource, saying costs were 20 per cent lower there.
Qantas is understood to be asking for changes to the working week that would allow it to roster on maintenance staff for longer hours during busy periods without paying overtime.
But Mr Cameron said this would affect take-home pay. He said it was senseless trying to compete with China without looking at issues such as management systems, logistics, skills and training.
AMWU members at Qantas were not the highest paid in the country, and were determined to maintain reasonable pay and conditions.
Maybe if QANTAS culled off some of the overpaid show-ponies leading the company, then they'd save even more money? Yeah, as if that's going to happen!
Good luck to the Unions.
Article from Friday's 'The Australian'.
Unions to resist Qantas pay cuts
Steve Creedy, Aviation writer
January 13, 2006.
QANTAS maintenance unions have put to management proposals to cut engineering costs without sending work overseas.
Unions say they will not accept cuts to pay or conditions, despite the company's threats to outsource work and send thousands of jobs offshore if it can't get the cuts it wants in enterprise bargaining negotiations.
Union officials believe there are other ways to improve the efficiency of Qantas maintenance and say they have put a series of proposals on the table.
"We've said we're happy to look at costs but not on the basis of wages and conditions or concession bargaining," Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron said as talks resumed yesterday.
"We're happy to look at the quality of the work, how you get better delivery of on-time work, how you look at management systems and what the logistics are -- better stores and getting stuff to workers on time."
Qantas executive general manager John Borghetti this week singled out China as a potential beneficiary of any Qantas moves to outsource, saying costs were 20 per cent lower there.
Qantas is understood to be asking for changes to the working week that would allow it to roster on maintenance staff for longer hours during busy periods without paying overtime.
But Mr Cameron said this would affect take-home pay. He said it was senseless trying to compete with China without looking at issues such as management systems, logistics, skills and training.
AMWU members at Qantas were not the highest paid in the country, and were determined to maintain reasonable pay and conditions.
