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Pilots’ Dispute Ends in a Whimper
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Pilots’ Dispute Ends With a Whimper
The seven month old Australian domestic pilots’ dispute was all but over by late March following the virtual unconditional surrender of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP) in order to be allowed back into the national wage fixing system.
A ruling brought down by the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) brought an ‘official’ end to the dispute, although there is still one more hearing to take place. The AFAP’s decision a week earlier to accept wage guidelines, abide by the IRC’s findings and lift a ban on AFAP members seeking work with the airlines in effect makes complete mockery of its long running campaign and emphasises the fact that the whole affair was ill-conceived in the first place and poorly led by the AFAP’s senior people. It has long been considered by many that the decision made by the pilots to resign en masse was a tactical blunder of the first order, and that is how it has turned out.
In a decision handed down by the Deputy President of the IRC, Prof Keith Hancock, total responsibility for the crisis the pilots’ mass withdrawal of labour provoked was laid at the AFAP’s door. The IRC did, however, agree in principle to allow the AFAPto re-enter the wages system, albeit with some reservations and conditions.
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