Qantas

Four years after 1700 Qantas workers were sacked and outsourced, and a year after the High Court agreed that it was illegal, Qantas has been ordered to compensate them. Jim McIlroy听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.

Nationalising, or 鈥渋nsourcing鈥 Rex, including regional and inter-capital city services, could be the first step in taking the airline industry into public ownership. Jim McIlroy reports.

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The union representing pilots and cabin crew at budget airline Jetstar Japan began coordinated strike action ahead of Christmas, after a breakdown in collective bargaining negotiations with management, reports Clive Tillman.

The Transport Workers Union wants听Qantas chair and the whole听board sacked for its anti-worker decisions, after the High Court unanimously upheld two Federal Court rulings. Jim McIlroy reports.

From misappropriating JobKeeper funds, to illegally sacking thousands of workers, to Alan Joyce鈥檚 enormous 鈥減ay鈥 rises, the scandals associated with Qantas are piling up. Mary Merkenich argues it should be renationalised.

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CEOs听and their media mouthpieces are hitting back at suggestions that, in a cost-of-living crisis,听there could be an acceptable level of profit.听Binoy Kampmark reports.

The High Court is hearing an appeal by Qantas that it did not unfairly sack baggage handlers, under the Fair Work, and outsource their jobs during the pandemic. Jim McIlroy reports.听听听

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce鈥檚 aggressive cost-cutting program at the start of the pandemic has been blamed for听Qantas鈥檚 poor performance. Jim McIlroy argues Labor鈥檚听decision to privatise Qantas in the early 1990s is the root cause.

Qantas received $2 billion in federal assistance 鈥斕齰ia the taxpayer 鈥 and still sacked听5000 employees. Binoy Kampmark argues听its business听model is in tatters.

While Qantas services sank and 9000 lost their jobs, chief executive Alan Joyce engineered the biggest transfer of public money to a corporation in Australia鈥檚 history, reports听Michael West.

The Transport Workers Union has welcomed a full bench decision by the Federal Court听that Qantas鈥 outsourcing of nearly 2000 ground crew workers two years ago was illegal. Jim McIlroy reports.

Aviation workers at Qantas are missing out on a wage subsidy despite the听company听receiving billions in federal funds, reports Jim McIlroy.