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Newshound
03-04-2013, 11:44 AM
Since the late 2011, when the industrial disputes at Qantas climaxed in the grounding of the fleet and the referral of the disputes to FWA, the outcome of those disputes have been essentially under the radar. Qantas can be said to have won the war by its strategic decision to force the disputes to arbitration by grounding the fleet, because it has been able to use arbitration to force the unions to drop some of their positions, particularly regarding broad structural and future employment issues. It seemed at the time of the grounding of the fleet that Qantas calculated that it could gain a livable deal substantially more quickly through FWA, rather than continuing in a bargaining period war of attrition with ongoing industrial action.

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