boofta said...
Paradox
You cannot create thousands of jobs in a saturated market.I accept your point that foreign operators are here on the ground in australia.
However, they are paying decent wages to Australians in australia.
What this irish git is planning is aussie unemployment. Foreign workers
on close to slave labour conditions, moving our jobs overseas.
Do you have a secure job?
I would suggest you can create jobs anywhere if you have the need to employ people.
And I do agree with you that other airlines employ Aussies and have created local jobs. However they pay thier Aussie employees less than Qantas, are not being forced to guarantee jobs and only operate their local domestic activites from Australia. Thier international operations and staff are based offshore. I do not believe Qantas is suggesting they would move thier domestic operations offshore....
I'm not sure you could put employees in the developed Asian countries (Singapore, Malaysia, HK etc) in the slave labour market either. Just because they are relatively cheaper does not mean they are exploited.
As for your question - I work in the private sector for a publically listed company and my job is certainly not secure - whilst my employer sees benefit in employing me, I have a job. If the company is performing poorly, the share price is down, I am made redundant, or my boss wakes up one morning and decides he does not like me I could easily find myself on the street.
I have to fight every day to ensure I am seen as value to the company I work for and my performance is clearly measured against that.
I would suggest that any employee of Qantas that has a similar attitude and work ethic (no matter what they do) would likely have a much stronger gurantee of a job than any forced agreement would deliver.
