✈ Qantas Fires 2000 Baggage Handlers

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Qantas Fires 2000 baggage handlers as their jobs are outsourced.

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[Techo]

Hard to believe a share price can double as the company logs a $2.7B loss...the share market is fully broken.

[RiverDanube]

A pay of $24 milliion divided by $50, 000 equals 480. So his work is equivalent to 480 individuals on base pay.

[shaneharrison]

Boycott Qantas. It’s not our airlines anymore.

[limlwl]

Companies: "We are all in this together"
Little people: "Yes we are all in this together"
1 Year later: Why are we getting fired?

[turbostyler]

You missed the point on this one mate. I worked as a baggage handler for Qantas for 5 years over a decade ago. I was hired as a contractor and then I was taken on as a permanent part timer. The difference in conditions was stark, the pay was no different. Qantas has an obligation to staff that injure themselves at work lugging bags over 30kg on their knees in confined spaces. Its not unusual to unload a few tonnes of baggage and cargo in one go. Backs and shoulders are the first to go, Qantas has their own physio and dr on site so people can get immediate treatment. Its the decent thing to do, to look after your staff. You can bet as soon as these staff are transferred over to labour hire they will get treated like cattle, as soon as your injured you're out. If they damage an aircraft with loading gear they were afforded immunity from sacking so long as they didn't have drugs or alcohol in their systems. As a contractor, you're gone, so they'll keep quiet about damaging aircraft in future. Its a great way to turn a premium airline into just another carrier so that the CEO can throw another mil on the pile... This behaviour from Qantas is disgusting.

[antoknee]

Quantas employees are unionized...outsourced employees, aren't unionized. It's that simple.

[grimreaper]

Not much fun losing your job had it hapend to me a couple of times

[pauljosse]

We got great depression unemployment and record stock n house prices...what sorcery is this

[chrisyorke]

I wish I had ever found a job which pays you $24 million when your firm makes a record loss.

[notathome]

Last two flight pairs I have taken for work have been a joke on both Qantas and Jetstar. Now using smaller airlines where I can who are friendly to deal with but don’t have same number of flights.

[paulh]

To be exact, it's 2000 staff across 10 ports that include aircraft cleaners (Fleet Presentation), Ramp personnel (who load the containers of bags onto and off the planes) and baggage handlers (who load and unload the containers). For any of these staff who decide to go for jobs with the winning contractors, they will find that the pay rate will probably be only 80% of their original QANTAS pay rate or worse. The government paid QANTAS the Jobkeeper so that we could all keep our jobs BUT the company did not want that. We all believed that this was going to happen in, maybe 4 or 5 years, but COVID-19 was a god-send for QANTAS. They can use that as an excuse to cover what they were always going to do. "The Race To The Bottom", as it was called, has been achieved. A lot of the competing ground handling companies have very bad records when it comes to caring for human life (it's employees). Loyalty only goes in one direction. You get the job with the "Big Australian" and you feel a sense of belonging, you show commitment by doing everything that is asked and more, and you do it with pride BUT we all get stabbed in the back. To the company, there is no such thing as "Family Spirit". The QANTAS brand is being destroyed by its management. Definitely not the "Spirit of Australia" in my opinion.

[ColdWarWarriors]

Morrison should have demanded Joyce's resignation when Qantas came cap in hand to the federal government looking for a bail out back in April.

[gandfgandf]

24 mill for Mr Joyce. OK. Although it's only a hypothetical, how about if CEO wages are capped at 10 x the minimum wage? That would get wages up in a hurry. Just kidding of course.

[frankdux]

Owe this is gonna be a really bad depression.

[gandfgandf]

Large Australian companies have been forever shedding thousands of staff. Based on their public announcements over many decades, Qantas, Telstra, etc, must have dropped half a million staff between them. Share price pump n dump anyone?

[maskmanfive]

Maybe its time to Axe Mr Joyce? His salary is ...able to support the 2000 axed wpuldnt it?

[WillyWanka]

"travel levels not back to normal until 2024" wowee

[davidpaul]

Many years I recall flying through Sydney baggage handlers then where thieves and over paid. Times are changing and many hard times for many 😳

[morris]

Hope the outfit goes bust over it's Covid policy. We were told the aircraft had the ducks nuts in air filtration by our short lil Irish cousin before this all got outa hand. I suppose the story changes as time goes on as no one will remember what said previously.

[DMV]

Do you think governments will downsize?