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Hundreds of Qantas engineers will walk off the job for 24 hours in an attempt to force airline management to negotiate their pay demands. The industrial action by the engine components maintenance engineers in Melbourne will begin at 9am on Wednesday. Heavy maintenance engineers in Brisbane downed tools at 1.30am.
The alliance said Qantas management had refused to return to the bargaining table and increase its previous offer. “Union members are voting overwhelmingly to escalate our industrial activities,” Australian Workers’ Union national secretary Steve Murphy said in a statement. “This is because every time there is a problem at Qantas, the executives ignore it and just hope that it will go away — well, we’re not going anywhere.
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