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Qantas cuts 1,500 jobs
"Chief executive Geoff Dixon has blamed the job cuts on the the surging price of oil and the airline's pay dispute with its maintenance engineers."
Peak oil claims more jobs... but we better not bring in proper carbon taxes/trades, that might cost jobs! Whereas business as usual will cost jobs, which is entirely different. Ahem.
If the powers-that- be could actually bring themselves to be proactive in tackling greenhouse and energy issues then there would be a lot of real jobs created in construction,science and engineering.
I think that carbon trading/taxes are really a paper war which might create some employment in the legal and financial sectors but that is not productive.What is presently happening is just an excuse for effective action to placate the easily fooled among the sheeple(the majority?)and protect that sacred cow,coal.
re QANTAS - I see that they propose to freeze the pay of executives - gee, such self sacrifice.
I'm sure the staff who are getting sacked will really appreciate that.