Since the 1980s, the class of billionaires, bankers, and owners has declared a war on workers all across the world, including airline pilots. Time to wake up.
Time to get organized more with our pilots unions. In terms of what used to paid to pilots, where do you think all the money has gone? Just look at the profits. Through union support and strikes we can recapture some of the glory lost. With our unions, we have the power, if we stand fast and unite. Imagine in Europe, the power, if all the pilots unions decided to hold a strike for one day, to protest our common concerns. Not easy but not impossible.
Pilots have seen their salaries drop while executive bonuses rise.
( Since 2008, the wealth of the richest 1% has been growing at an average of 6% a year – much faster than the 3% growth in wealth of the remaining 99% of the world’s population. Should that continue, the top 1% would hold wealth equating to $305tn (£216.5tn) – up from $140tn today. )