QANTAS passengers are facing three months of lengthy delays and disruptions after maintenance unions vowed to impose "low-level" industrial action from Thursday.
The action could delay international traffic during the Melbourne Commonwealth Games and over Easter.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and Australian Workers Union said they had no choice but to proceed with the action after holding further enterprise bargaining agreement talks with Qantas yesterday.
The airline had already broken a deadline set by unions last month to "come clean" on details of its five-month-old review of engineering operations. This may result in the sacking of at least 2500 of 6900 maintenance workers and the relocation to Asia of long-haul heavy maintenance.
SMH
The action could delay international traffic during the Melbourne Commonwealth Games and over Easter.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and Australian Workers Union said they had no choice but to proceed with the action after holding further enterprise bargaining agreement talks with Qantas yesterday.
The airline had already broken a deadline set by unions last month to "come clean" on details of its five-month-old review of engineering operations. This may result in the sacking of at least 2500 of 6900 maintenance workers and the relocation to Asia of long-haul heavy maintenance.
SMH