Ah, the brotherhood of pilots. The quintessence of Aussie mateship.
Well, for y'all not around for '89, '02 and even '08....here we go again.
Make no mistake, if times are hard enough, we will sell our grandmothers and root a dog on a chain.
That being said though, management will always do what management wants to do. There is no free will.
Your 'meal allowance' waver scenario is a simple show of weakness and scaremongering.
I call 'bull****' on the OP