Airlines

A new pay deal at Qantas will deliver pay increases averaging 13.5% over three years.And the first rise will be backpaid to July 1. In an Australia-wide secret ballot, 86% of our Qantas members voted in favour of the deal.It was a hard slog and our delegates put in a lot of hours on the ground and …

Pay talks got off to a bad start at Skywest Airlines with the company demanding trade-offs in return for paltry rate rises. Trade-offs is bad language as far as we are concerned and we almost told the Skywest negotiators to go and wash their mouths out with soap. In return for three 3% increases ov…