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Formation
Licensed Aviation Maintenance Engineers (LAMEs) felt their representation in broad trade unions such as the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) and the Electrical Trades Union of Australia to be inadequate, which led to the founding of the ALAEA in 1964. A leading member of the ALAEA at the time of its founding, John Alldis, quoted an AEU organiser saying "[w]e have 80,000 members and only 2,000 of them are in the aircraft industry so we are not going to spend the union’s money on such a small group," referring to LAMEs. Their formation of a trade-specific union reflected older forms of craft unionism, while also reflecting contemporary trends in professional unions of emphasising technical expertise.

ALAEA founders encountered difficulty in gaining official recognition as a trade union, facing disagreement from industrial organisations including the Victorian Trades Hall Council, the AEU, the Sheet Metal Workers Union (SMWU) and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia. James Snout, the secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council at the time, said that the push for ALAEA formation, "sprang from a snobbish belief that aircraft mechanics and engineers would be better off and more exclusive in the new organisation than in an existing union." The Industrial Registrar sided with the opposition to ALAEA formation, twice refusing their application, before an appeal in 1964 granted official registration.

Offshore maintenance disputes
The ALAEA is among maintenance unions which have raised concerns about the practice of moving aviation maintenance offshore, claiming that it causes "a weakening of regulatory controls, deskilling and increased safety risks." Due to difficulties associated with A380 aircraft in late 2010, the operating lives of some older aircraft had to be extended, which highlighted the LAMEs' importance in the maintenance process as these older aircraft required their expertise, experience and knowledge of individual aircraft, which they claimed would be undermined by an offshoring process featuring "modularisation and pooling of parts."

Practicing Citations
Licensed Aviation Maintenance Engineers (LAMEs) felt their representation in broad trade unions such as the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) and the Electrical Trades Union of Australia to be inadequate, which led to the founding of the ALAEA in 1964. A leading member of the ALAEA at the time of its founding, John Alldis, quoted an AEU organiser saying "[w]e have 80,000 members and only 2,000 of them are in the aircraft industry so we are not going to spend the union’s money on such a small group," referring to LAMEs.

The ALAEA is among maintenance unions which have raised concerns about the practice of moving aviation maintenance offshore, claiming that it causes "a weakening of regulatory controls, deskilling and increased safety risks."

The ALAEA fears that the approach of offshoring will hinder the future of the industry as it dilutes the ‘knowledge base’ of workers.

In a 2008 Senate Inquiry into the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, the ALAEA raised concerns about the process of maintenance undertaken by overseas contractors.

ALAEA members undertook industrial action against Qantas on 15 March 2011, which involved "strikes of up to 48 hours, stop-work meetings, work to rule, overtime bans, bans on higher duties, refusing to feed data into software and similar."

The Federal Court will determine whether Qantas standing down approximately two-thirds of its LAMEs as a result of the economic fallout from COVID-19 was legal. \

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