Mijatov MFI#1—Tab 2—pages 5–8 [PDF 1.9MB]

Michael Mijatov
For Secretary
Over the last 8 years, our team has
delivered two successful, comprehensive
and detailed EBAs. Ihese agreements
delivered the following:• 24% pay increases and 75%
Steven Reed
For Assistant Secretary
• TIle avoidance of AWXs
(Individual contracts) for
our QCCA crew.
• Long Service Leave in the
EBA
of all regional flying
• Parental Leave extended
from 52 weeks to 104 weeks.
• A cap on overseas based
crew
• Agreement on new aircraft
to be flown by Qantas.
• Last on first off redundancy
provisions and a redundancy
formula in the EBA.
• Maintenance of a seniority
based preferential bid
system.
• Unlilnited access to
part-time for all categories
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• No increases in hours for
crew
• Hundreds of promotions
and preservation of
promotion for Australian
based crew
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At a time when other Qantas Unio1ls
are haviflg their EBAs determined by
I1Idustriai tribunals and potentially
with some of our engineering bases
being threatened with closul'ewith
massive and unacceptable job losses,
you are being asked to make a choice
in the F<AAA elections. Those that
you choose will negotiate your EBA
and he1lce your future.
TIle c1wice is a stark olle. Our team is
experienced alld with a record of
success and attention to detail. We
have a plan to protectyourfuture
a1ld a proven track record. Our
oppo11ents whilst well meaning lack
experience alld sadly have a past
record offailure. TIlts ERA and the
next few years will be pivotal to the
future ofQAL crew. How YOli vote
ill this electioll will determine YOllr
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MICHAEL MIJATOV - CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY (CSM SYDNEY)
It has been my pleasure to represent our members for the last 15 years (7 years as
Assistant Secretary and the last 8 years as Secretary). This period ofleadership has
enabled me to acquire extensive experience on all IR issues and IR legislation. This
experience has ensured and will continue to ensure that our union is not
outsmarted by Qantas as occurred to several unions late last year, with the
shutdown of Qantas and threatened lock-outs
I have been an integral part of EBA negotiations on 9 occasions,S times as
Secretary. If you re-elect me as Secretary, I will use my extensive experience to
deliver another good EBA outcome that will protect your jobs and conditions and
allow our QAL members to have a continuing, viable future.
STEVEN REED - CANDIDATE FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY (CSM SYDNEY)
For the last eight years it has been my very great honor to be the President of our
union. There is nothing I am more passionate about than representing my
fellow flight attendants. It is my life's work. My union involvement goes back to the
early 1990's. I am passionate about OH&S, Fatigue Risk Management and
Workers Compensation. I represent crew in EBA negotiations, disciplinary matters
including matters in the Commission and am a vocal advocate for the interests
of International Cabin Crew. I am standing for the Assistant Secretaries position
as part of the FAAA succession plan. It has taken me over 20 years to develop my
negotiation skills and Industrial knowledge; if I am re- elected, you have my
commitment to apply all my knowledge and skills in furthering your interests as
crew. I commend our team to you and ask you to also elect the remainder of our
skilled team who share my passion.
SONYA FABBRO
NICK KENNY
DAVID HORSFALL
LEO CLOSE
BFA SYDNEY
CSSSYDNEY
FA SYDNEY
CSS MELBOURNE
Our team has wide and varied FAAA and business experience, ranging from Procedures Committee work,
Planning and Scheduling Committee, representing flight attendants in disciplinary matters as well as extensive
OHS Qualifications and experience. Irrespective of base or aircraft type our team is committed to working in
your best interests. The level of experience in dealing with Qantas in a range of complex representation areas
is unprecedented. A team with a common purpose and proven track record will be part of securing your future
and your working conditions.
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A FEW THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE CASTING YOUR VOTE
The international airline business at Qantas is in
trouble. You don't need to be Albert Einstein to
work that out. As flight attendants we often feel
completely helpless and our futures are out of our
control.
• We want to be respected for what we do
• We want job security and a level of
Control over our lives, and;
• We need to maintain the core conditions
that underpin those lives.
That is only partially true. Senior Qantas management
makes many of the decisions that affect Qantas
and flight attendants, where we as flight attendants
have no control.
Our opposition ~n their material sent to your
homes, suggests that members of our team are
being supported by them. This is after they
appl'oached these same people to rUll with them
and were rebuffed. Their platform is based on
misinformation and is drawn from things that
your current team have either already announced
or they have heard us say at FAAA meetings. There
is not an original thought in their platform just
words with no substance behind them.
Where you do have control is how your interests
are represented through the FAAA.
Ie have been YOUR VOICE to management over
the last eight years, we have been YOUR ADVOCATE
throughout a global financial meltdown and you
know that we have been listened to, and have real
and meaningful input. Unlike others in the Qantas
workforce there has been no compulsory redundancy
of flight attendants as a result of our policies and in
fact there has been a significant winding back of
offshore crewing.
For a long time the FAAA and its membership
was treated like many other Unions throughout
Australia - an unnecessary evil. We have turned
that around with management and we have
;hieved that by earning their respect. They take
us seriously and when we make a threat to do
something .they know we will carry it out. Jhey
also know that we are pragmatic and sensible.
As we represent YOU, this is a respect that you now
have from that same management. Yes, it's easy to
pick on isolated things that annoy us as crew, but
the challenge with 3000 members is that there are
after all only few common threads amongst all our
differences.
They have used the term "integrity" in their
platform. If this misleading behavior is an example
of what they consider to be integrity, it is already
an indicator that they have learned nothing from
their past mistakes. They are also using the same
rhetoric that three other unions used over the
last couple of years to their members. The results
are now being played out in Fair Work Australia
with Arbitrated EBA's where members get no
vote and faced with Compulsory redundancies.
The financial and competitive pressures facing
Qantas are not going to go away, but you need a
Union representing you that will be at.the table,
rather than on the menu. Under our leadership
we are at that table, every day of the year in one
forum or another. As a result you have that voice
and that input through us.
In this election, you can build on what we have
collectively achieved or we can go back to the past
with our opposition.
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We are not a group of left wing loonies as flight
attendants and we don't believe that's an FAAA that
you want or deserve.
You have seen the approach taken in other
areas of Qantas that has resulted in Compulsory
redundancies and lockouts without pay. 111at is not
a course of action that we believe our members
would benefit from.
Some have suggested that we spend millions of
dollars on QC's and Exotic Legal options like some
of the other Unions have. Fair work Australia's
schedule is full with Qantas Unions and their
Lawyers mounting spurious legal challenges
against the inevitable.
It has been suggested that we should join with
those other unions and spend millions lobbying
independent Senators to change laws, and the
newspapers are full of stories of both the Government
and Opposition combining to thwart those efforts.
workforce represented by a relevant, engaged
and competent Union. Do not be fooled by those
that have no idea themselves and believe that the
solution to all our problems will be foun(~ by
spending millions on lawyers. If that were the
case there would not be lawyers defending unions
in Fair Work Australia, with EBA's that are being
arbitrated rather than negotiated.
We acknowledge that our direct and forthright
approach is not always appreciated by some
of our members and is seen as unnecessarily
confronting. The easiest thing for us to do would
be to take the "populist" approach and not
deliver the tough messages or make tough decisions
because it will make us "unpopular':
Naturally nobody wants to be unpopular but
we are prepared to carry that personal burden if
the result for our members is the right decisions
to protect jobs, conditions and incomes. Our
continuing commitment is to never just follow a
populist approach and to always do our best for you.
Lmvyers and exotic legal maneuvers are no
substitute for having a relevant and engaged
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