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The carrier said Joyce had been the victim of threats, without going into details, but one letter reportedly told the Irish chief executive: "It's coming soon Paddy. You can't even see it."
"The Unions will fight you... Qantas is our airline, started & staffed by Australians, not foreign filth like you," the Sydney Daily Telegraph reported the typed threat as reading in part.
The letter said Joyce's "evil plans" would come back to haunt him and he would be kicked out of the country, the Telegraph reported.
The paper also said senior Qantas staff had their car windows smashed and houses damaged after refusing to strike.
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Unions are locked in protracted contract talks with Qantas and its Asia restructuring plans have inflamed tensions, with workers demanding guarantees on pay and conditions under the airline's new strategy.
Qantas doubled its annual net profit to Aus$250 million ($239 million) in August and upped Joyce's pay by 71 percent to Aus$5 million, angering staff facing job cuts. Full story...
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The carrier said Joyce had been the victim of threats, without going into details, but one letter reportedly told the Irish chief executive: "It's coming soon Paddy. You can't even see it."
"The Unions will fight you... Qantas is our airline, started & staffed by Australians, not foreign filth like you," the Sydney Daily Telegraph reported the typed threat as reading in part.
The letter said Joyce's "evil plans" would come back to haunt him and he would be kicked out of the country, the Telegraph reported.
The paper also said senior Qantas staff had their car windows smashed and houses damaged after refusing to strike.
(...)
Unions are locked in protracted contract talks with Qantas and its Asia restructuring plans have inflamed tensions, with workers demanding guarantees on pay and conditions under the airline's new strategy.
Qantas doubled its annual net profit to Aus$250 million ($239 million) in August and upped Joyce's pay by 71 percent to Aus$5 million, angering staff facing job cuts. Full story...
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