Engineers sacked?

[Storyteller]

Does anyone know anything about QF Engineers being sacked wholesale today?

 

[Mal]

Please. Let it be true. Less blubber from Steve "pouting" Purvinas is only an improvement for Qantas.

(But no, I haven't heard anything on the Newswires).

 

[Storyteller]

Lots LAMES in BNE sacked / enforced redundancies late this pm.

 

[LiamR]

Please. Let it be true. Less blubber from Steve "pouting" Purvinas is only an improvement for Qantas.

I thought I was the only one who wanted to hit him over the head everytime he talks.... It always amuses me to hear him blame every single problem Qantas has on overseas maintaince.

 

[muppet]

Lots LAMES in BNE sacked / enforced redundancies late this pm.

What are LAMES?

 

[LiamR]

What are LAMES?

Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers

 

[muppet]

Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers

Thanks LiamR.

Is this likely to result in delays or anything? Are they authorised to strike?

 

[notzac]

Are they authorised to strike?

Leeetle bit difficult to strike if they don't have a job to go on strike from.. :mrgreen:

 

[eastwest101]

I understand that there were some voluntary redundancies eventually offered a while back, after a lot of guessing games and uncertainty. May be true but if so it means not a lot of the VR's were taken and they may have had to go to involuntary/forced redundancies.

 

[Nigelinoz]

Well if it were true I would have thought there would be a thread on PPRuNe about it and I haven't been able to find
anything,I'm also told that QF is actually looking to hire a couple of LAME's for 747 work at Avalon.
Cheers
N'oz