Do Jetstar ever have strikes?
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Do Jetstar ever have strikes?
A touch over dramatic, if your going to strike you strike for maximum impact, everyone wants it not to touch them otherwise people don't care. If there was some decent industrial relations and trust between the parties it would not be required, simple. I have a good friend who is an engineer with AIR who would prefer not to strike however the way management has dealt with this group since the Rob Fyfe days makes it simple to understand why they have no trust in each other. AIRs management are paid the big bucks and as a shareholder I expect them to resolve it.
AIR has about 11,000 employees and their wages bill is headed to $1.3b. That's getting on towards $120,000 per employee on average. No wonder they're N.Z. favourite employer. Your mate and his mates are jeopardizing the livelihoods of other employees, holding about 100,000 travellers and their families to ransom and affecting the reputation of the airline and potentially hurting shareholders pockets too. Blackmail is exactly what it is and it's heinously timed and reprehensible. Engineers should expect a backlash from the public and the company if this strike action goes ahead.
For a numbers man perhaps you should go into PR :) 120k per employee is just showing some are very well paid..far from all. A lot of two tier contra contracts within the worker bees. I'm just asking the well paid to do their job:) How are they jeopardizing the livelihood of others employees...AIR will be here, given their near monopoly position in NZ for the seeable. They cannot blackmail the NZ public.. they can only leverage AIRs management..which AIRs management are happy to do in return constantly like any corporate, until it comes back and bites them :)
I actually do have tickets over this period and it sounds like your whole years holiday riding on this :)
A touch condescending :p;
But yes - absolutely - its up to AIR management to resolve it. Haven't yet seen many examples where hostile industrial relations did help to boost a companies performance, but I remember a number of examples where unions brought a company to its knees. It is afterwards typically the workers (all of them, not just the unionised bullys) who pay the price with loosing their jobs, not the much loathed management.
There’s a guy on twitter who reckons that Air negotiators haven’t been turning up for some pre-arranged meetings with the union .......and that pisses the union off
Anyway Jacinda will sort it out ...no strikes she promised .....but this could be a case of no government shareholder interference into operational issues
I've said it before - I think the union is making a mistake not trying to do something to garner public support for their cause. If they do strike, all Luxon need do is replicate what Joyce did when QAN crews went on strike - lock them out and ground the fleet. It will lose the airline millions but it will force Government intervention. And the Government will have little choice but to come down on whatever side has popular support - in QAN's case, the regulator simply threw out all the union's key demands after ordering the strike and lockout to cease. In the AIR case, I can't see it ending up very different, as the sales pitch to the public so far by E Tu is atrocious.
Interesting?
You hardly ever see a barrel roll in an airline share price chart.
Meanwhile independently of the discussion of whether they buy a Boeing Business Jet for senior management to circle the globe in whilst repressing the work-force, the share price is doing remarkably well all things considered.
Hope the strikes do not happen and the engineers get a good deal.
Good old Jacinda telling both sides to sort it quickly.
Strike off
So the unions ploy worked - agreement in principle.
Strike off.
Everyone back in their boxes and let the airline earn.