Qantas pilots vote to authorize strikes as broad pay deal takes shape

Pilots report mental health and wellbeing impacts from excessive on-call scheduling requirements affecting family life.

Somewhere between the tarmac and the sky, Qantas long-haul pilots have drawn a quiet line in the sand — not yet a strike, but a mandate. In voting between 76 and 88 percent in favour of potential industrial action, they have named something that often goes unnamed in modern work: the cost of never truly being off duty. The dispute, mediated through Australia's Fair Work Commission, turns on money and on time — specifically, the right to days that belong entirely to oneself, free from the 45-minute call-in that shadows eight weeks of every pilot's year. Both sides say they are close to an agree

Qantas pilots vote to authorize strikes as broad pay deal takes shape

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