Hundreds of Qantas ground workers handling freight and QantasLink regional flights will strike next week over pay and working conditions. The 24-hour stoppages are scheduled for Wednesday in Victoria and Thursday across the rest of Australia. The Transport Workers Union said any freight disruption, including to Australia Post shipments, would be the responsibility of Qantas management. The dispute follows Qantas' outsourcing of more than 1,800 ground-worker jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic, a move later deemed illegal; a court ordered the airline last year to pay a record A$90 million fine.