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Michael Mijatov For Secretary

Over the last 8 years, our team has delivered two successful, comprehensive and detailed EBAs. Ihese agreements delivered the following:-

• 24% pay increases and 75% of all regional flying

• Hundreds of promotions and preservation of promotion for Australian based crew

• A cap on overseas based crew

• Last on first off redundancy provisions and a redundancy formula in the EBA.

• Unlilnited access to part-time for all categories

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• TIle avoidance of AWXs (Individual contracts) for our QCCA crew.

• Long Service Leave in the EBA

• No increases in hours for crew

• Parental Leave extended from 52 weeks to 104 weeks.

• Agreement on new aircraft to be flown by Qantas.

• Maintenance of a seniority based preferential bid system.

Steven Reed For Assistant Secretary

At a time when other Qantas Unio1ls are haviflg their EBAs determined by I1Idustriai tribunals and potentially with some of our engineering bases being threatened with closul'ewith massive and unacceptable job losses, you are being asked to make a choice in the F<AAA elections. Those that you choose will negotiate your EBA and he1lce your future. TIle c1wice is a stark olle. Our team is experienced alld with a record of success and attention to detail. We have a plan to protectyourfuture a1ld a proven track record. Our oppo11ents whilst well meaning lack experience alld sadly have a past record offailure. TIlts ERA and the next few years will be pivotal to the future ofQAL crew. How YOli vote ill this electioll will determine YOllr future.

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SONYA FABBRO

BFA SYDNEY

MICHAEL MIJATOV - CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY (CSM SYDNEY)

It has been my pleasure to represent our members for the last 15 years (7 years as

Assistant Secretary and the last 8 years as Secretary). This period ofleadership has

enabled me to acquire extensive experience on all IR issues and IR legislation. This

experience has ensured and will continue to ensure that our union is not

outsmarted by Qantas as occurred to several unions late last year, with the

shutdown of Qantas and threatened lock-outs

I have been an integral part of EBA negotiations on 9 occasions,S times as

Secretary. If you re-elect me as Secretary, I will use my extensive experience to

deliver another good EBA outcome that will protect your jobs and conditions and allow our QAL members to have a continuing, viable future.

STEVEN REED - CANDIDATE FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY (CSM SYDNEY)

For the last eight years it has been my very great honor to be the President of our

union. There is nothing I am more passionate about than representing my

fellow flight attendants. It is my life's work. My union involvement goes back to the

early 1990's. I am passionate about OH&S, Fatigue Risk Management and

Workers Compensation. I represent crew in EBA negotiations, disciplinary matters

including matters in the Commission and am a vocal advocate for the interests

of International Cabin Crew. I am standing for the Assistant Secretaries position

as part of the FAAA succession plan. It has taken me over 20 years to develop my

negotiation skills and Industrial knowledge; if I am re- elected, you have my

commitment to apply all my knowledge and skills in furthering your interests as

crew. I commend our team to you and ask you to also elect the remainder of our

skilled team who share my passion.

NICK KENNY DAVID HORSFALL LEO CLOSE

CSSSYDNEY FA SYDNEY CSS MELBOURNE

Our team has wide and varied FAAA and business experience, ranging from Procedures Committee work,

Planning and Scheduling Committee, representing flight attendants in disciplinary matters as well as extensive

OHS Qualifications and experience. Irrespective of base or aircraft type our team is committed to working in

your best interests. The level of experience in dealing with Qantas in a range of complex representation areas

is unprecedented. A team with a common purpose and proven track record will be part of securing your future

and your working conditions.

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A FEW THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE CASTING YOUR VOTE

The international airline business at Qantas is in trouble. You don't need to be Albert Einstein to work that out. As flight attendants we often feel completely helpless and our futures are out of our control.

That is only partially true. Senior Qantas management makes many of the decisions that affect Qantas and flight attendants, where we as flight attendants have no control.

Where you do have control is how your interests are represented through the FAAA.

Ie have been YOUR VOICE to management over the last eight years, we have been YOUR ADVOCATE throughout a global financial meltdown and you know that we have been listened to, and have real and meaningful input. Unlike others in the Qantas workforce there has been no compulsory redundancy of flight attendants as a result of our policies and in fact there has been a significant winding back of offshore crewing.

For a long time the FAAA and its membership was treated like many other Unions throughout Australia - an unnecessary evil. We have turned that around with management and we have

;hieved that by earning their respect. They take us seriously and when we make a threat to do something .they know we will carry it out. Jhey also know that we are pragmatic and sensible.

As we represent YOU, this is a respect that you now have from that same management. Yes, it's easy to pick on isolated things that annoy us as crew, but the challenge with 3000 members is that there are after all only few common threads amongst all our differences.

• We want to be respected for what we do • We want job security and a level of

Control over our lives, and; • We need to maintain the core conditions

that underpin those lives.

Our opposition ~n their material sent to your homes, suggests that members of our team are being supported by them. This is after they appl'oached these same people to rUll with them and were rebuffed. Their platform is based on misinformation and is drawn from things that your current team have either already announced or they have heard us say at FAAA meetings. There is not an original thought in their platform just words with no substance behind them.

They have used the term "integrity" in their platform. If this misleading behavior is an example of what they consider to be integrity, it is already an indicator that they have learned nothing from their past mistakes. They are also using the same rhetoric that three other unions used over the last couple of years to their members. The results are now being played out in Fair Work Australia with Arbitrated EBA's where members get no vote and faced with Compulsory redundancies.

The financial and competitive pressures facing Qantas are not going to go away, but you need a Union representing you that will be at.the table, rather than on the menu. Under our leadership we are at that table, every day of the year in one forum or another. As a result you have that voice and that input through us.

In this election, you can build on what we have collectively achieved or we can go back to the past with our opposition.

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We are not a group of left wing loonies as flight attendants and we don't believe that's an FAAA that you want or deserve.

You have seen the approach taken in other areas of Qantas that has resulted in Compulsory

redundancies and lockouts without pay. 111at is not a course of action that we believe our members would benefit from.

Some have suggested that we spend millions of dollars on QC's and Exotic Legal options like some of the other Unions have. Fair work Australia's

schedule is full with Qantas Unions and their Lawyers mounting spurious legal challenges against the inevitable.

It has been suggested that we should join with those other unions and spend millions lobbying independent Senators to change laws, and the

newspapers are full of stories of both the Government and Opposition combining to thwart those efforts.

Lmvyers and exotic legal maneuvers are no

substitute for having a relevant and engaged

workforce represented by a relevant, engaged and competent Union. Do not be fooled by those that have no idea themselves and believe that the solution to all our problems will be foun(~ by spending millions on lawyers. If that were the case there would not be lawyers defending unions in Fair Work Australia, with EBA's that are being arbitrated rather than negotiated.

We acknowledge that our direct and forthright approach is not always appreciated by some of our members and is seen as unnecessarily confronting. The easiest thing for us to do would

be to take the "populist" approach and not deliver the tough messages or make tough decisions because it will make us "unpopular':

Naturally nobody wants to be unpopular but we are prepared to carry that personal burden if the result for our members is the right decisions to protect jobs, conditions and incomes. Our continuing commitment is to never just follow a populist approach and to always do our best for you.