{"id":94608819,"date":"2011-07-11T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/qantas-pilots-vote-to-authorize-strike-action-while-seeking-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2011-07-11T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T10:10:00","slug":"qantas-pilots-vote-to-authorize-strike-action-while-seeking-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/qantas-pilots-vote-to-authorize-strike-action-while-seeking-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas Pilots Vote to Authorize Strike Action While Seeking Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Qantas is facing possible strike action from its long-haul pilots <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA union representing Qantas Airways&rsquo; long-haul pilots has voted to authorize two days of strike action as negotiations are sought over the airlines&rsquo; restructuring plans for its international operations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPilots have expressed concern over job security as Qantas continues to look for ways to cut costs on international routes that are hemorrhaging money.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe airline is scheduled to announce a major restructuring plan on August 24. Pilots hope to negotiate with management before then, saying strikes are a last resort that they hope to avoid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;We&#39;re very conscious of disrupting the travelling public; we don&#39;t intend to do that&hellip;We&#39;d rather have the management negotiate,&quot; union vice president Richard Woodward said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/11\/uk-qantas-strike-idUSLNE76A00N20110711\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Qantas is facing possible strike action from its long-haul pilots &nbsp; A union representing Qantas Airways&rsquo; long-haul pilots has voted to authorize two days of strike action as negotiations are sought over the airlines&rsquo; restructuring plans for its international operations. &nbsp; Pilots have expressed concern over job security as Qantas continues to look for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}