Qantas is facing an existential threat to its divide-and-conquer industrial relations policy, which is now ready to be picked to pieces by the Fair Work Commission (FWC).
The airline is in the final phase of a dispute with the 250 pilots who work for its Perth-based subsidiary, Network Aviation (NA), over a new enterprise bargaining agreement that stretches back to 2019. Pilots rejected agreements agreed between Qantas and unions four times in 2023 and early 2024 and have also taken strike action.
In March, the FWC case deemed the dispute to be “intractable bargaining” under the Albanese government’s “Closing Loopholes” legislation,
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