Duh !
if no one joins after you, as a full time employee, then of course you will remain at the bottom of the list, however as contractors have no company seniority/ rights ,you are always ahead of them anyhow in reality.
As others retire/leave you will move closer to the top of the list until one day you find yourself at the top . . . & then
shortly afterwards you leave/retire, & the list doesn't exist, & everyone is employed on crummy contract terms , rather than the lovely , but expensive for "poor" Norwegian, contract.
This is, of course, the long term game plan, how much blame you place on Contractors just trying to earn a living, versus full time guys, who along with their Unions can't agree amongst themselves, may be clouded by your own status.
At the end of the day , it doesn't matter who is to be blame/ or being blamed, what is important is that it is being allowed to happen, & another company currently offering industry leading T's & C's is in the process of going down the toilet as far as good permanent contracts are concerned.
It is an excellent contract ,for a contracting pilot, it is the full-time guys who should be doing something about it.
As the song goes "If you tolerate this, then your children will be next"
Merry Xmas to all flying Rudolph liveried aircraft, I hope you can stick together & put an end to being sold down the river by your management
( & these good wishes from a "Contract" pilot, who nonetheless wishes to defend all of our T's & C's industry wide,) It isn't because many of us are envious of your permanent contracted terms , that we wish to devalue them, but it is for you to defend them, not for us to refuse a nice contract job if you have allowed your management to make it available.
if you won't defend yourself, it is not for us to cut off our nose to spite our face by boycotting a lucrative temporary contract .