The pineapple is certainly coming for pilots too. But yeah f*ck those overpaid baggage handlers.
QANTAS can't be everyone's personal cash cow, it already has to compete with the ME3 on routes to Europe and Virgin on the domestic front. None of these are grossly overpaying their ground staff or have powerful unions squeezing their nuts, they don't live with the threat of some bolshie shop steward calling a work stoppage during the morning peak.
The cruise ship operators restructured long ago as it was impossible for them to remain in business while paying union rates to American staff. Was this inevitable or did the unions drive the shipping lines to register under a flag of convenience and employ third world nationals, because of excessive pay demands ? Either way the result was that only the Captain and a few senior officers are US citizens, the rest of the crew are from India, China, Philippines, Vietnam etc.
Of course this has already been going on with airline cabin crew for a while.
Remember the "glorified bus drivers" didn't get much support from the union movement back in 1989.