THE proposed Qantas takeover is facing another challenge - a push by the union covering a third of the airline's staff for a six per cent pay rise under a new enterprise bargaining agreement.The Australian Services Union (ASU) is seeking to buck a trend of airline management pushing hard for productivity trade-offs from its 37,000-strong workforce in return for pay rises of about three per cent, The Australian Financial Review says today.
The ASU covers administrative, check-in, call-centre and information technology staff.
The push comes as the Airline Partners Australia (APA) consortium seeks the acceptance by institutional investors of its $5.45-a-share offer, and as the airline has been forced to release upgraded profit forecasts for this financial year and next.
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