If you don't need the glamour and want good pay and conditions become a train driver. (train drivers have the intelligence to know the value of standing together)
Well that's not going to last much longer as you are being automated out which won't be happening in aviation any time soon if at all.
As for that Australian article sounds like the author is trying to suck up to QF management. Maybe a bit of quid pro quo for his next piece. Given how long AIPA has been a extension of QF management it's amusing that the author is suggesting AIPA is to combative.