If Qantas pilots go in for an EBA, it only affects them because they’re at the top. No-one below them is affected because they’re currently paid less. If anything, it may help drag others up. What they are doing and accepting is affecting only them.
I'll disagree with this point only, in that you need the top to keep appreciating as well as the bottom. It keeps a flow of pilots moving towards better conditions and a view of what you can achieve. If the top level is being stomped on what hope has the bottom to get improvements. For the bottom rung to have bargaining power they need something to aim for. Hence everybody in the industry needs to support each other when it comes to PIA and not white ant the others attempt to improve their lot, that is when the word scab comes out. Sadly I see too much bickering within companies own pilot groups aiming at unions and splitting the base when they need to work together, if you can't even grasp the idea of unity within your own company you will never grasp the idea of it needing to be industry wide. So what if there is slightly different views on what scraps you argue over, or this pathetic percentage vs that, its about overall gains.
A good example is QLink vs Rex. With the constant issues between Easterns and Sunstate it is getting to the point where the united SAAB group at Rex will be on equal conditions to a Q400 pilot having already surpassed the Q300 package.