The TWU says 98 per cent of workers supported the protected industrial action ballot, which was filed at the end of October, after knocking back the same proposed agreement from dnata twice by margins of 92 per cent and 94 per cent respectively.
What appears to have kept Australia’s cables relatively safe in practice, then, is not primarily active enforcement of the zones but redundancy and self-interest elsewhere in the system.
Two QantasLink pilots who experienced hypoxia-like symptoms on a 717 service from Sydney to Hobart last year did not use supplemental oxygen, the ATSB has revealed.