For sure, it's not what any pilot in his or her right mind would like to hear. But the facts stand. Hardly any European company will need the same number of pilots as in January 2019 for at least a year from now. Optimistically, summer 2021 may offer the same demand for intra-European flights as summer 2019, with long-haul lagging behind and hence affecting overall RPKs. That if we assume that the acute phase of the pandemic in Europe is about to abate in the coming month and never come back. If, Heaven forbid, there's another surge in cases and consequently a new round of travel restrictions, it can get a lot worse.
Presumably everyone knew what they were signing up for. Namely that unions, collective agreements and bargaining do not exist within the RYR group. In good times, that's not too much of a problem as the conditions get adjusted accordingly whenever people start leaving en masse and someone still needs to get those planes flying. That's market self-regulation. It's happened in past years, it will happen again at some point in the not-so-near future. In bad times, the downsides of this model start showing their ugly head - and that's the exact case now. Those gentlemen get their way through blunt force even in much better times. Whether or not you want to be a part of all this is up to you. Whether or not you have access to better alternatives in the short to medium term is also a question that everyone answers for themselves.