The staff through their unions held hostage to the management demanding payrise among other stuff, since August.
The young CEO (kindu 45) instead returned the strike to them by grounding all QANTAS aircraft wherever they were in the world at that moment and locking out all unionizable employs out of company pemises with immediate effect.
This was "Operation Shock and Awe" (OSA) as all employees including the government and premier Julia Gillard were not expecting this drastic move!
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