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    CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Qantas Airways grounded all of its aircraft around the world indefinitely on Saturday due to ongoing strikes by its workers.

    The Australian carrier's entire fleet of 108 aircraft will remain grounded until unions representing pilots, mechanics and other ground staff reach an agreement with the airline over pay and conditions, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce told a news conference in Sydney.

    "We have decided to ground the Qantas international and domestic fleets immediately," Joyce said.

    Flights already in the air when the announcement was made were to continue to their destinations.

    Staff will not be required to show up at work and will not be paid starting Monday, Joyce said.

    Joyce said he made the decision early Saturday and then gained the approval of the Qantas board.

    The airline had been forced to reduce and reschedule flights for weeks because of a series of strikes and overtime work bans over staff concerns that their jobs are being moved overseas.

    Joyce estimated the grounding will cost the airline $20 million a day.

     
    • John C  •  Kahului, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Moving their jobs overseas? An airline? lol
      • Peacelady 7 mths ago
        Don't fly Quantas. Their future pilots and flight attendants won't speak any kind of English that we here in the US understand. They will be paid less than our minimum wage which will give them no incentive to do a good job. Those of you dissing unions, please ask someone you know who has or had a union job and ask them if they appreciated the protection, wages and benefits the union offered them. There are poor employees in all kinds of jobs, both unionized and not. Those of you who whine the most about unions probably wish that you had a union job. The wages and benefits are teriffic.
      • Richard J 7 mths ago
        1. Call centers
        2. Maintenance facilities
        3. Back offices and accounting

        Shall I go on, John?
      • Samuel 7 mths ago
        Moving their jobs overseas in the sense non national residents are given the jobs over the natives..........for eg. An Indian vs Aussie both have the same qualification but the job is given to Indian coz he's ready work for less than cheap...
    • Catfish  •  7 mths ago
      No money = No money. What about that equation does not balance?
      • bullsh1t 7 mths ago
        Umm...the fact that they HAVE money?
      • Aaron 7 mths ago
        Their CEO just got a 3 million dollar raise.
      • Symbols Like This 7 mths ago
        google=wage qantas ceo...Qantas shareholders also voted overwhelmingly in favour of Qantas' executive remuneration.The report included a 71 per cent increase in the value of chief executive Alan Joyce's remuneration package, from $2.9 million in 2009/10 to $5 million in 2010/11. But (of course) Qantas said that a complicated accounting process meant he actually received $3.8m. (my #$%$So..who's side are you on? The people...the 99% who operate the #$%$ business, who make the $$ for the corporate bigwigs and then SPEND their earnings, thus cycling it back into the economy or the CEO FATCATS, the 1% who make the tough decisions and do deserve a larger share, just not ALL the share, but will SIT on their money once it's made?
    • David T  •  Los Angeles, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Chappy needs to remember, if not for the Support of the U.S. & multi national forces, including Australia..Kuwait would not be there.
      • Samuel 7 mths ago
        U.S need to remember if not for JEWS the USA will be yet in the stone age.....
      • anthony v 7 mths ago
        You mean because they run the FED, the media, Hollywood and Wall Street?
      • Samuel 7 mths ago
        Bit more mate......like GOOGLE.YAHOO,ORACLE,EBAY,PAYPAL, FACE BOOK,BLOOM BERG,MACDONALD, HSBC, NEW YORK YANK-ES, MANCHESTER UNITED, TESCO ETC................also 40% of the billionaires are Jews. by the way I'm not Jewish...........
    • MLB  •  7 mths ago
      Well, that does it! I'm taking a Greyhound to Australia!
      • Andyfarquar 6 mths ago
        Why, will it run faster in the Australian atmosphere? I had a greyhound once, tasted like chicken.
    • Saladin  •  Tunis, Tunisia  •  7 mths ago
      I like this: ''Flights already in the air when the announcement was made were to continue to their destinations''.
      Well, I thought they er... would turn off their engines right away in the sky and go for strike with their mates because the ''announcement'' was made.
      • MityQue 7 mths ago
        I liked that too. Pay stops on monday... how do these employees get home? On their own dime I guess.
    • Willy  •  Sunnyvale, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Put that in your globalizm and smoke it
    • Deiv  •  Makati City, Philippines  •  7 mths ago
      There are two sides on the issue--like a pan. One side is hot, the other is steamy frying.
    • Joseph  •  Tucson, United States  •  7 mths ago
      So... they go on strike because they are concerned about their jobs moving overseas. Meanwhile, because of their strike, overseas airline companies pick up the surplus of passengers to get them to their destinations. Only in a union does this make sense.
    • reb  •  7 mths ago
      This is great news - now U.S. airlines will pick up all of their passenger traffic between the U.S. and Australia. They'll probably have to add a few flights.
    • John E  •  Hamburg, Germany  •  7 mths ago
      Great, I wish more companies would do this and show those union thugs that you can't just pay your workers more and more and more and expect to remain a viable business especially when your competition isn't. What amazes me is this "entitlement" mentality people have. "I want more and I don't care if it hurts my company"...what a joke. IF you are unhappy with your pay, go work somewhere else, no one is forcing you to work for Qantas. If you don't like the terms, then don't work there. Pretty simple. If you can't find another job, go educate yourself. Unemployment in Australia stands at 5.2%, that means 94.8% of the workforce is employed, better than the US and most of Europe. GO FIND A JOB SOMEWHERE ELSE and let this company do what is in its best interest. FREEDOM is about choice and you have a choice to leave and do something else, take it while you still can.
    • SoCalledGeo  •  Hayward, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Teach em boys as an X employee of UAL, yes there was a United Airlines Jimmy, I know the feeling and if my fellow employees at UAL would have stood up Id still have a job. The Airline, the Fed Gov and the Union let us down. Oh now your heavy maintenance on your 747s is done in Korea and China, Everything is contracted out. Good luck when your plane is going down in the pacific.......
    • Blah  •  7 mths ago
      GREEDY UNIONS!!!I bet they make far more than enough money but they want more!
    • peterb  •  6 mths ago
      There is a rumour that huge fraud is being covered up that is why Qantas management has grounded their fleet they are anti union bashing to take the heat off themselves
    • home owner  •  Boston, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Hmmmm, let me see. I want to make more money so I think I'll strike my employer, I'll cost my employer $20m / day which will then encourage my employer to pay me more, guaranty me job security and drive more work my way.I just don't get it. Here's a solution for the company. Toss out every single employee, rehire entire workforce at market wage and move forward in a profitable manner. Here's a solution for the employees, take the time and make the investment to obtain marketable skills, and go out and get jobs at market rates of pay and the more in demand your skill-set is the more profitable you'll be. I just don't get the current union position of, because you are a member you are entitled to a higher level of pay, it just makes no sense to me. If you posses marketable, in demand skills you'll make money, if you don't, you won't. What is it about supply and demand that the majority of union workforces don't get?
    • Bill J.  •  7 mths ago
      Hmm, not a bad strategy. Shut down operations, file for bankruptcy, pay off all debts in cash and loans, restart the business with a new name like "QuantasJet" and leave the union contract far behind. I would imagine that if the business went under during a strike, the business would not have any obligation to pay past wages, severance, retirement, etc. Definitely getting the popcorn out for this one.
    • Andrew  •  Adelaide, Australia  •  7 mths ago
      I take it you are all aware the CEO of QANTAS just scored a 71% pay rise at the AGM yesterday?
      This is not just about money.
      QANTAS wants to outsource as much as possible of its work off-shore to Asia.
    • BudW  •  6 mths ago
      Fly Air NZ or Virgin airlines
    • BudW  •  6 mths ago
      Do not fly Qantas their planes are being maintained in China that is a scary thought
    • BIgAl  •  Seattle, United States  •  7 mths ago
      The strikes will continue, Qantas will continue to lose 20 mil a day, and will go out of business. The unions win, but no one is working, so everyone loses. Now that's logic! Sometimes I'm embarrassed being human.
    • Kevin  •  7 mths ago
      This is a global economic depression. You have to realize this.
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