Qantas engineers pledge whacky, wrong-handed strike action
Right-handed Qantas engineers have vowed they will use only
their left hands for screwdrivers and spanners as industrial
action triggered by negotiations over a new enterprise agreement
heats up.  The Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers
Association has written to Qantas advising that two members, one
in Melbourne and one in Perth, would not use their right hands
for the essential tools for a week, starting Friday.  And in a
separate protected action, the engineers will stop work for a
minute at 10am on Friday. The 60-second stopwork will happen
across the country.  Qantas hit out at the engineers’ move and
said the union was pushing for unreasonable pay increases and
trying to hold on to outdated work practices.  "The union is
playing ridiculous games as they negotiate a new pay agreement,"
a spokesman said.  "Where will this all end? If all 1600 Qantas
aircraft maintenance engineers only used their left hand to
maintain our aircraft this would be