I believe you guys when you say it is illegal to strike or even stage a walk-out. In my world that means I`m left with basically no rights whatsoever. And if I want to keep on working for such an outfit in a country where this is the case, I just have to forget everything that has to do with self-respect.
I`m the first one to admit that it is important to maintain an income for the sake of your family`s welfare. But at the end of the day, when your bank account is balanced and your kids fed, are you really happy and content knowing that you cannot use the rights your friends in other parts of the world take for granted. The right to put down your foot when you and your colleagues feel that unjustice is coming your way. I think not.
Furthermore; as far as I understand, at the same time as 49 colleagues were sacked in HK and IFALPA put a band on CX, pilots are lining up to take the vacant positions. I know this is a stupid question, but what happend to being a colleague? I know, twenty odd years in this business, on both sides of the table, should have told me not to ask such a question.
