The Death of QANTAS

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Originally Posted by flappist

I used to be in the ETU and saw it from the inside. The ETU held the people of QLD to ransom in the SEQEB strikes of 1984/5 therefore giving JBP the mandate to smash them completely.

TWU obviously did not learn from that lesson.

For those who don't get it or look with only one eye the lesson is:

DO NOT ANNOY THE GENERAL PUBLIC. They/we do not care about anything that does not affect us directly and will turn on whomever is causing us grief regardless of right or wrong.

In this case the perception is:
1) There is a dispute and the unions repeatedly stopped work causing grief.
2) The unions threatened to destroy QANTAS.
3) QANTAS stops flying because of the union so the general public now have huge amounts of grief which they believe is because of the union.
4) The Fed Gov will have to act to sort this and as the general public are against the union the Fed Gov will snot them.

My bet is the TWU like the ETU will now be singing soprano......

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