Year 2001...
About 750 Qantas maintenance workers in Sydney walked off the job for 24 hours, but their strike was not expected to interrupt flights.
Maintenance workers voted for the strike because of concerns about job security and the outsourcing of maintenance work at the jet base, unions said.
The strike was the first in 10 years to affect Qantas' entire Sydney maintenance operations.
Qantas executive general manager of aircraft operations David Forsyth said the airline had decided to send four RB211-524G engines to the engine manufacturer in Hong Kong for repair because the airline's Mascot jet base facility was at capacity.
Year 2006....
MAXINE MCKEW, LATELINE PRESENTER: Qantas maintenance workers rallied in three cities today, claiming the airline had broken its commitment not to send maintenance work overseas. Unions are also upset over pay negotiations, saying workers are being told to accept pay cuts or jobs will go to China. A dispute with Qantas pilots is also brewing after a warning that they too will need to shoulder some of the burden of making the airline more competitive.
Year 2011...
All Qantas LAME Members - Notice 035/2011 -
1) EA9 Protected Action Ballot
2) Outsourcing Continues
On 12 May 2011 “Licenced Engineers' Union Puts Passengers Last - Sydney, - Qantas has been forced to cancel 31 flights affecting around 2500 passengers and delay another 46 flights during tomorrow's morning-peak, as a result of union-led industrial action from licensed engineers. “
October 2011...
RINGS of industrial fire are increasingly encircling Qantas management, with Jetstar becoming the latest part of the airline group to be slapped with work bans.
It comes as Qantas aircraft maintenance engineers yesterday deferred their planned strikes at the 11th hour, but the airline had already been forced to cancel or delay the flights of 11,000 travellers.
Qantas yesterday cancelled 40 flights, delayed or rescheduled another 24, some by more than three hours, and brought forward 14 others to cope, while 11 flights today have already been cancelled.
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As you can see this is a widespread problem all over the world not only here or in France, the problem is everywhere and if everyone does it what are your perspectives to survive, never mind in succeed in the business, at the end is a financial and political decision of the government of turn if the country support or not a flag carrier to continue in the air and representing the country. I personally in my opinion the technical and maintenance part of this industry should be keep in the country, once you lost the ability to do that it is lost if not for ever for a long time until new personnel is trained in these very special task and probably take another generation to accomplish.