Qantas heads to Fair Work Commission to sort pay dispute with pilots By Reuters

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(Reuters) -Australian provider Qantas will head to the nation’s Truthful Work Fee on Monday to hunt arbitration in a pay-related dispute with its pilots at a subsidiary in Western Australia who’ve voted down a brand new enterprise deal 3 times.

Community Aviation, which conducts constitution operations for the sources sector, will make an “intractable bargaining software” to the Fee after 18 months of failed negotiations.

Community Aviation pilots are represented by three main staff unions, which embody the Australian Federation of Airline Pilots (AFAP), the Australian and Worldwide Pilots Affiliation (AIPA) and the Transport Staff Union (TWU).

The pilots will strike for twenty-four hours later this week, and the airline’s transfer to hunt arbitration comes after they voted down the 2 most up-to-date proposed agreements regardless of backing from the unions.

“It’s disappointing that as we have suggested the AFAP of our intention to use for the Truthful Work Fee to help with arbitration, the union has notified us it plans to take industrial motion,” a Community Aviation spokesperson informed Reuters in an e-mail assertion.

About 57% voted down the third proposed settlement, which supplied pay will increase of greater than 25% coupled with new allowances for pilots, Community Aviation mentioned.

The AFAP mentioned in an announcement on its web site that it gave Community Aviation a discover of the work stoppage beginning midnight on Thursday, Feb. 8.

“Community pilots’ pay and situations are considerably inferior to that of different pilots at Qantas and comparable airways,” AFAP Senior Industrial Officer Chris Aikens mentioned within the assertion.

“The AFAP has been genuinely negotiating and attempting to achieve an settlement with Qantas administration, however the firm stays unwilling to revisit its rigid wages coverage instituted below the previous CEO.”