Qantas freighters’ to take action after ‘lowball’ offer
Qantas pilots responsible for offering parcels will take industrial action on the company’s fee proposal and leave them at the bottom of the sector.
More than 100 Express Freighter pilot, over 90 percent of the company’s “Lowball” proposal in favor of the action in favor of the action in favor of the action in favor of the action will begin to take a low -level action.
The unions said that after the negotiations extending for six months, the company refused to improve the proposal that the pilots wandered at the naked legal minimum level of the 2020 Air Pilots Award and will be in a bad balance of work-life balance.
The pilots fly the parcel load of a significant amount of Australia Post, which are often “behind the clock” overnight, and are 260 hours away from home a month.
Three unions, the Association of Transportation Workers (Twu), Australian Air Pilots Federation (AFAP) and Australia and International Pilots Association, the first -preserved action ballot compasses.
If the pilots undertaking low -level action, unions do not return with a better offer, the unions will stop and will not stop and complement things before a planned shift, while the trade unions determine the runway for increasing action.
Twu and AFAP are looking for a wage increase to match industrial standards, as well as improvements and additional days in staff guards to improve the work-life balance.
Twu National Secretary Michael Kaine said that workers are fighting the contracts to the cheapest bidder in the Qantas Supply Chain.
“Industrial action is always the last resort, but once again we saw that Qantas has come to the bargaining table, instead of giving them a fair offer, he wanted to descend his workers.” He said.
He continued: “We must stop seeing the workers as a cost to reduce an investment rather than an investment.”
Simon Lutton, General Manager of AFAP, said the pilots had no other option.
“Compared to the equivalent pilots, the proposal to the express loader pilots by Qantas represents the lowest provisions and conditions in almost every metric.” He said.
In February, Qantas made a profit of $ 1.39 billion before the tax in half -month results.
