{"id":4645,"date":"2011-07-11T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/qantas-airways-pilots-union-authorizes-strike-action-seeks-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T03:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:56:35","slug":"qantas-airways-pilots-union-authorizes-strike-action-seeks-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/qantas-airways-pilots-union-authorizes-strike-action-seeks-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas Airways&#8217; Pilots Union Authorizes Strike Action, Seeks Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The union representing Qantas Airways\u2019 long-haul pilots has approved two full days of strike action in the lead-up to a major restructuring of the airline\u2019s international operations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/qantas-airways-qf\">Qantas airways<\/a> is expected to announce a major shake-up of its international operations on August 24.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The carrier is looking for ways to cut costs on certain international routes that are currently hemorrhaging money. That has Qantas pilots concerned over issues of job security.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pilots\u2019 union hopes to negotiate with Qantas management before the announcement and insists that strike action will be used only as a last resort.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very conscious of disrupting the travelling public; we don&#8217;t intend to do that\u2026We&#8217;d rather have the management negotiate,&#8221; union vice president Richard Woodward said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/11\/uk-qantas-strike-idUSLNE76A00N20110711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The union representing Qantas Airways\u2019 long-haul pilots has approved two full days of strike action in the lead-up to a major restructuring of the airline\u2019s international operations. &nbsp; Qantas airways is expected to announce a major shake-up of its international operations on August 24. &nbsp; The carrier is looking for ways to cut costs on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98908181,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions\/98908181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}