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‘Appalling’: Qantas steels for union fight after outsourcing 2000 jobs – Sydney Morning Herald
Qantas has forged ahead with signing contracts to outsource 2000 baggage handling and cleaning jobs despite facing a union court challenge over the redundancies….
In a media release, Qantas noted the union had not sought an interlocutory injunction to stop the outsourcing while the matter was heard by the court.
TWU described Qantas’s decision to push ahead with the outsourcing program while the matter was still before the court as “appalling”.
“Qantas workers are distraught and flabbergasted that the airline they’ve given years of their lives to has treated them as disposable cogs in the machine,” TWU Assistant National Secretary Nick McIntosh said.
“Their…
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