These numbers extrapolated over WA’s different massive miners and now for six days is more likely to outcome within the journey plans of greater than 10,000 folks being affected.
Qantas needed to cancel 35 return flights throughout a one-day strike final Thursday when 95 per cent of its common clients and 70 per cent of constitution clients had been moved to completely different flights on the day. That efficiency might be troublesome to match over six days.
What are Qantas and the pilots arguing about?
The Qantas pilots in WA haven’t had a pay enhance since 2019. They’ve voted down two packages put to them and had a one-day strike in October earlier than recommending industrial motion with a 24-hour stoppage final week.
Qantas says it has supplied a 25 per cent pay enhance, however the union’s response is that this solely applies to its lowest-paid members and solely will get them a couple of per cent above the award that might apply with out an enterprise bargaining settlement.
There are additionally disputes about rostering, with the unions having seven unmet calls for.
The pilot’s union claims it needs its WA-based Qantas members to have the identical pay and circumstances as Qantas pilots elsewhere within the nation.
The airline argues its WA enterprise could be very completely different with a mid-week bump in exercise as mines change swings.
Are they near a deal?
Not for those who listened to Australian Federation of Air Pilots senior industrial officer Chris Aikens speaking to Radio 6PR’s Ollie Peterson on Tuesday afternoon.
“They’re appearing like an smug intransigent bunch of employers, and we simply can’t take it,” he mentioned of Qantas.
Aiken was referring to circumstances Qantas had agreed to however then took off the negotiating desk.
Later Community Aviation chief working officer Trevor Worgan mentioned in an announcement the strike was aimed straight at WA’s economic system by focusing on fly-in fly-out mine employees.
“We’ve been working to achieve a brand new settlement for 18 months and need our pilots to start out receiving pay will increase of greater than 25 per cent that we’ve supplied.
“We’ve been clear that we can not supply extra.”
How lengthy will the strikes go on for?
Who is aware of? It’s a battle of wills.
All however seven of the 210 pilots who voted on taking protected industrial motion in September supported the choice of “a limiteless variety of single or consecutive 24-hour stoppages of all work.”
On Monday, Qantas went to the Truthful Work Fee to ask for the negotiations to be declared intractable. Aiken mentioned the method would probably take a couple of weeks. If the Fee agrees with Qantas, industrial motion must cease, leaving the unbiased umpire to find out the result.
Within the meantime, the pilots and Qantas might each be snug dropping extra days of pay or income, however the disruption might value the large miners far more, placing strain on their transport supplier.