Tweeting the Qantas shutdown
Posted by Ken Parish on Saturday, October 29, 2011
Update – Tweets placed in a more coherent context in In search of Qanilingus at CDU Law and Business Online.
NB Australian Financial Review arguably has the best coverage and has no paywall for the weekend.
downesyStephen Downes
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Alan Joyce’s secret ambition is to pursue a merger between #Qantas and his old airline, Aer Lingus. It would be known as Qanilingus
AequoEtBonoAngus M-a-c-i-n-n-is
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KJBarKaren Barlow
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Right then RT @leigh_howard No decision till tomorrow arvo it seems folks. #Qantas
leigh_howardleigh_howard
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There are at least 15 people appearing. This will go all night. #Qantas
leigh_howardleigh_howard
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Appln under s 424(d). Never been used in history. Govt could have jumped this step by declaring grounding void under s 431. #Qantas
AequoEtBonoAngus M-a-c-i-n-n-is
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So Qantas’ go-to silk, Harry Dixon SC, was in Melbourne today? What a lucky coincidence!
leigh_howardleigh_howard
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Minister: seeks to terminate ALL industrial action, not just lockout. #Qantas #ausunions
sallysaraABCSally Sara
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3 Australian soldiers killed, 7 wounded in shooting by attacker dressed in Afghan National Army uniform. Shah Wali Kot, Kandahar province.
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Meanwhile: “Microsoft buys Skype, attacks reverse engineer with bogus takedown notices and florid language” tiny.cc/ki6ii >
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tiny.cc/shggd “no one at Qantas to blame, not workers or management..faced with horrid reality of competitive global airline business
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FWA s424 tiny.cc/y4y3j – would end union action as well as lockout. Probably that’s what Joyce was aiming at – high stakes poker
profsarahjSarah Joseph
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From 8pm AEDT on 31/10 Qantas will lock out all employees covered by the new ALAEA, TWU and AIPA agreement. bit.ly/23SFRn
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Qantas: total chaos and massive self-inflicted losses. For the latest, check Crikey’s aviation guru Ben Sandilands bit.ly/sjQkNu
peterjblackPeter Black
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qantas media release about the lock-out bit.ly/tESBh6
AequoEtBonoAngus M-a-c-i-n-n-is
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And while I’m tweeting FWA sections, this is why you can’t sue #qantas for any loss you suffer: bit.ly/t0eEG3
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Well done Alan Joyce and Qantas board. It’s about time employers in this country developed a bit of backbone against union blackmail and bloody-mindedness. If the strikes had gone on Qantas would have ended up as another Ansett, and you’d have all these unionists sobbing about losing their jobs and entitlements. Even the far-left Dick Smith is blaming the unionists.
Posted on 29-Oct-11 at 6:16 pm | PermalinkMy take. Occupy Qantas, fight the one percent. http://enpassant.com.au/?p=11458
Posted on 30-Oct-11 at 2:48 am | PermalinkWhat nonsense in your link, John. The ‘pittance’ being paid to Qantas employees? Baggage handlers getting $80000 annually and some pilots getting over $500,000. Salaries much higher than those at Virgin but still they want more. How on earth can a company selling an internationally traded good compete successfully with these costs? Answer: They cannot.
Posted on 30-Oct-11 at 5:38 am | PermalinkThe real world comes lumbering in and suddenly it’s panic stations.
Posted on 30-Oct-11 at 6:13 am | PermalinkChina exports more than just machinery, appliances and credit.
so apparently virgin can successfully negotiate an agreement that includes flexibility but Qantas cannot.
What does Qantas have that Virgin doesn’t.
An overpaid CEO who got an increase of over 70% based on comparative wage justice not performance.
so lockout are good but strikes are bad. nice logic again.
Posted on 30-Oct-11 at 8:59 am | PermalinkHomer, would you give the unions their claims?
An old mate of mine was an Ansett hostie and then became one of the union stewards. I saw him the other day and he was still whinging about how the company had done the wrong thing by the employees.
Posted on 30-Oct-11 at 10:23 am | PermalinkWhy can Virgin negotiate a ‘flexible’ EBA yet Qantas clearly cannot.
Only an imbecile could believe Qantas has any credibility on keeping wages down after the ridiculous increase given to the CEO.
how can they cry poor after that.
Unions need the suport of their members and my guess is they simply do not believe Qantas management.
Posted on 30-Oct-11 at 1:45 pm | PermalinkOf course they did the wrong thing by employees. Most employees suffered loss of entitlements when by gross dereliction of management Ansett drove itself into bankruptcy. The first duty of a board of directors is to keep the company afloat to keep faith with its staff.
Posted on 31-Oct-11 at 10:14 am | PermalinkKen, if you are there, what do you think of the s.431 argument? I should have thought that a ministerial direction would still be more certain than a reference to the tribunal on the grounds that the review is not on the merits. But perhaps judicial review is different for the Feds or the FWA.
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