Congratulations, in chasing a 3% wage increase you, your fellow workers and your unions have placed your job of 27 years in jeopardy along with the future of one of Australia's great company's, (you wouldn't still be there if they weren't good to work for)
The SA civil construction industry which I have worked in for over 20 years is currently experiencing it's toughest time in at least those last 20 years, new land development has all but stopped, the only projects our great SA Government 
releases (many have been put on the back burner again) are packaged in such a way that nearly all local company's cannot compete with the very large national company's who also have less taxes than the SA companies and while the big company's are here they tender for the smaller contracts also. SA company's are going into receivership, workers have no or very little work, workers are going interstate or the mining industry to seek work (and don't come back) when Olympic Dam expands they will take allot more workers from the civil industry and company's like the one I work for, who have invested massive amounts of time and money to upskill their workers so that we can remain competitive. Whilst the Government is just watching it happen 
Our Group of company's also invest in land developments, we have commenced work on one of these projects (even though the land is not selling at present) in an attempt to retain as many of our workers as possible, in the hope that work will pick up soon. Other company's do not have this luxury and have lost or put off it's workers, I have even had our sub contractors contact me offering their workers, as they cannot keep them employed much longer.
So before you call myself and others on here F wits!! pull your bloody head in and think yourself bloody lucky that you even have a job there are many workers worse off than you!
Well done again to Qantas to standing up to those who are holding them and the country to ransom, there should be more of it 
bubba 
Listening to all this Union bashing, Unions this...Unions do that....
Look who is on the Qantas Board...google it...Cosgrove....Yes, that's it, the ex General Gosgrove.
He being a board member has allowed this executive bastardisation to happen.
If he stands by his principles, fairness, co operation and man of the people as such....resign from the board.
The media speaks of the wages to Joyce getting the OK from share holders.....Wrong... the mums and dad share holders said No..
The institution holders (The big end of town...who had the mussle) had the votes to out vote the mums and dads, then pass the executive pay increases.
4 years ago...Alco wanted to buy Qantas...if that happened Qantas would be gone now..Alco went belly up and Qantas lived.
Well fk me.....
Who pulled the pin on the whole show...Joyce...he made the decision to strand people....not the unions...they have called off 3 meetings in the last 2 weeks.
He was a dickhead at Ansett, cockhead at Air Lingus and is driving Qantas into the ground here....he has the body of a 737 and an ego of a A380 and the brains of a morris mini....a fked mini at that!.
Unions are everywhere in societies...cleaners, doctors, ambos, police, why...because unions are the collection of people, who band together to protect their workers rights and living conditions.
So when people start attacking unions...you are attacking your fellow Australians.
I just can't believe some of the redneck comments made against the many people,some of whom I can say are my friends, who day in day out, in all weather under massive amounts of stress, make the flying Kangaroo fly...
I'm leaving his forum....
