Dear Louise,Get some reality please, otherwise known as do a bit of fucken research, not simply regurgitate a 'fed' story.
Kevin Rudd talks of wage constraint and tighter fiscal policies where it will 'cost jobs'.
The total wages cost of Air Traffic Control in Australia is in effect less than the tax and the profit that Airservices pays the government.
A strike is far from a forgone conclusion; but the clock is ticking. Stop work meetings are far more likely as a first step.
Your Key points:
1. The dispute is a test of the governments call for wage restraint.
Where productivity is proven, it should be rewarded, an offer of reduction in real term wages is not the equivalent of restraint, it's opportunism. Compare ATC wages growth with AWOTE since 1990; which way are ATC wages headed?
2. It would have serious implications for the struggling tourism industry
A full blown strike yes, a stop work, no! Linking the tourist industry a the ATC wages dispute is akin to link GP charges with Hospital funding, related yes, critical no.
3. The union has rejected Airservices' offer and recommended strike action.
That's just wrong, the union has initiated a legal bargaining period and is asking it's members to vote on a range of options as required by law, in order to take any of the listed industrial actions.
Fact, Air traffic is at Record levels; BTRE predictions is reduced growth, not reductions; note the subtle difference?
This means that graphs like this:
Are still going to trend upwards. Compare this to the reduction in ATCs in the corresponding period and it is clearly a productivity gain, which has not been rewarded in any way. In fact when compared to AWOTE Australian ATCs have slipped some 23%.
All this in a climate where the worldwide shortage has seen more ATCs leave Airservices in the last 12 months at higher rates than any other year. Why would ATCs leave:
1) To get away from arguably the worst ANSP in the modern world,
2) For better conditions of employment,
3) For an increased salary.
The current cost of Air Traffic Control wages is close to $1.00 per ticket. Do not confuse 'Airways revenue' with the cost of the service, the service costs do not proportionally rise if the ATC wages do.
A rise of 63% would cost every punter a grand total of 63 cents a ticket. An extra 63 cents a ticket is never going to be the catalyst for crippling the tourism industry! The full claim is on average for 39% or 39 cents a ticket.
Civil Air's vision is a claim not a settling point; but the counter claim (the Airservices Offer) a reduction in real wages is not even close to reality either. There has been no pay-rise for in excess of 12 months, the 'conditions of service' that the employer wishes to remove far exceeds the financial offer; they want to remove conditions of employment without paying for them; most controllers will not want to surrender any conditions of employment. IT'S ALREADY A SHIT PLACE TO WORK!!!!!
We also repeat that the 'efficient rostering' proposed is nothing to do with the Certified Shafting Process; it's a total smoke screen, a good PR Spinners line.
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Some of these articles make you wonder if the media industry is scraping the bottom of the skills market when choosing employees.
Given the Minister's complete inability to properly examine the causes of the problems in Airservices, I wonder if the Labor party are having a similar skills shortage.
I heard the other day that the Australian Union team agreed to take a per game pay cut on the condition that the executives no longer fly first class. I came to thinking that Airservices should show a similar restraint in executive spending before shitting over its employees.
Suggested measures include:
- Stop flying Greg and his wife first class on Airservices money. Its a joke.
- Stop using Airservices money to buy corporate boxes at sporting events.
- Make all GMs fly economy for flights less than three hours.
- Stop having executive love in weekends where executive spouses are invited.
- Stop paying executives and third level managers thousands of dollars in bonuses when they haven't achieved anything.
- Stop wasting money on consultants who have no long term incentive to see Airservices work better but every short term incentive to tell greg what ever he wants.
- Stop Mr Mueller from writing long incomprehensible letters and consultation clauses that you then need to pay lawyers to review (because no one else can work out what the F@#k they mean).
- Take executive pay back to the equivalent public service rate - that is... some one in charge of HR in much larger departments would be an SES 1 - that is about $150k total package. In fact our organisation is no larger than many departments who are run by an SES 3 on around $300k. I would guess that greg gets paid far in excess to do such a shit job.
I welcome any other suggestions that people may have... it is time that the media and minister put the pay claims into context with what is happening at the top.
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Oh - and I should mention (in addition to the previous comment) that all third level managers and above are entitles to leave as required at their managers discretion. So all of you wankers preaching about the absurdity of unlimited sick leave for an industry that has such strict medical conditions should turn a firm glare onto the dickheads that are running the place that have the same entitlement in reality.
Amen, It's already a shit place to work!
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