Maintenance engineers in ‘subversive' pay campaign against Qantas

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Note sure if this was already posted, but found this article this morning:

SIX aircraft engineers complained about the safety of doors on Qantas-owned planes as part of a subversive campaign for better pay, a court has ruled.

The engineers reported in October 2010 that coughpit locks on Dash 8 planes, operated by Qantas subsidiary Sunstate Airlines, could be opened with an ice-cream stick or a rolled-up boarding pass.
They also noted the coughpit door could be opened by leaning against an adjacent toilet wall.
Almost the entire fleet of aircraft was temporarily grounded.

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I'm surprised they weren't terminated.
 
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Interesting. I have seen FW Australia (actually, the AIRC back in the day) rule against a bank I worked for who terminated someone, and I (and most others) could understand exactly why they did it, but they fell down in the actual process and in the AIRC the bank was made to look like nasty incompetents, and the guy was reinstated and reimbursed salary etc.

So for FWA to find for the company means the transgressions must have been significant.
 
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