Pilots’ pay offer not what it seems —Morris
NZPA-AAP Canberra The latest Australian Federation of Air Pilots offer to resolve the domestic pilots’ pay dispute was not what it seemed, the Industrial Relations Minister, Peter Morris, said yesterday. The dispute remained deadlocked yesterday in spite of Wednesday’s decision by the A.F.A.P. to withdraw its 29.5 per cent pay claim and offer to negotiate on longer flying hours already accepted by pilots who have rejoined on individual contracts.
The A.F.A.P. president, Captain Brian McCarthy, said yesterday that by rejecting a genuine offer, the Government and the airlines had shown they were not interested in ending the dispute.
Mr Morris said the Government’s attitude throughout the dispute had been that the pilots’ claim had to be dealt with under the national wage guidelines. “On the face of what they have said it is not an acceptance of working within the guidelines, it is not an acceptance of arbitration on the matter and certainly it is not what it appears to be — a sharp increase in productivity,” he said.
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