Date Time TWU slams ‘dictator’ Qantas for imposing unilateral wage freezes The Transport Workers’ Union has slammed Qantas for cutting more jobs and bypassing enterprise bargaining, announcing to the ASX that it will impose a two-year wage freeze on workers. TWU National Secretary Michael Kaine called on the Federal Government to take an equity stake in Qantas over the mismanagement of $2 billions in public funding which continues to cost jobs and drag down wages and standards. “Qantas management is acting like a dictator, using public resources to shore up its position, cut jobs and impose unilateral decisions on its workforce. There is a system of enterprise bargaining in place so that both sides can sit down and compromise. This announcement to the ASX flies in the face of enterprise bargaining and should ring alarm bells to the Government and investors that Qantas is out of control,” he said.