Just to make sure that the Astonisher gets to whinge about everything this article was put together by our new team engaged to report on matters totally irrelevant to Linton. By now if you haven’t had your say on the QANTAS matter yet here is your chance to hear ours.
Let us start off by establishing the fact that we are fully supportive of Australian companies but deplore their behavior in contracting cheap overseas labour. On the other hand in order to survive against overseas competition Qantas have to keep their costs down in order to compete on fares.
The ‘spirit’ of Australia is all that Qantas will be by the time Alan Joyce has done with it. Our planes will just take off and land here just like any other Pacific Island especially now that he has aligned himself with the Middle East through Emirates. Maybe he’s preparing for a take-over of Qantas and a position at the helm of Emirates.
The Unions are not being helpful either. As Alan Joyce put it ‘We are being held to ransom by tree unions’ as if to put the blame on the Greens. Later on he made an un-Chairmanlike comment when he said ‘One turd of the workforce’. Speech impediment aside (although a dual passport holder) Joyce is an Irishman not an Australian and maybe has a genetic connection with Irish writer James Joyce who excelled at another type of f…… people.
When he deliberately stranded thousands of passengers around the world he did not endear himself to passengers and has driven public support into the hands of recalcitrant unions. As one pundit put it ‘It was a winning strategy for a social loss’. One might suggest that the shareholders ‘Occupy the Airports’ to get the point across that he is now persona non-grata.
What irks us most is his claim that Qantas is losing money despite profits having risen from $377 million last year to $552 million this year and thus justify his 71% pay increase to $5 million whilst denying his staff any pay increases at all despite increases in productivity and reduction in conditions. His pay rise far outstripped the unions economic demands. It was a case of ‘all for one’.
It appears that Joyce is preparing for another move, this time to the Arabian Peninsula. The tie in that Qantas now has with Emirates to by-pass Singapore and its main rival it seems that he’s looking upward again to a raise. But we’re not so sure that getting a rise in Arabia would be a good idea considering their attitudes to people who are so happy that they call themselves gay. He would look good in one of those cute little hats and veils.
Worst of all his disastrous decisions have unfairly thrown doubt back on the intelligence of the Irish again. Just when Irish jokes begin to wane here comes Joyce to create a few more nasties.
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