Our colleagues in the GOM deserve respect and support in their endeavour to secure necessary and well deserved improvements in terms and conditions.
Both the pilots of PHI and AirLog made impressive improvements last time around, but still have a long way to go.
Their customers are in a position where they easily can afford the minute increases in the cost to running their oil fields which would be the result of a negotiated agreement between management and pilots at AirLog. Hopefully management will realize this before it is too late.
Strike breaking activity has been a last ditch effort throughouot history. It leads to bad blood between management, unions members and the strike breakers. The wounds take a long time to heal, if left unattended.
No one respects a strike breaker, who effectively risks ruining his reputation within his line of work for the remainder of his career.
Pilots contemplating adhering to threats from management should keep in mind that management would in effect be using scabs as expandable canon fooder in a dirty war. Later on, after the dust has settled, management and unions will at one point sit down to find ways to heal the wounds. The guys or girls who took a wrong turn during legal industrial actions would not be part of the solution.
Best of luck to colleagues in AirLog!