Lastly, the biggest problem for Australian pilots in the industrial landscape is the unwillingness of the vast majority of union members to lift a finger to help the cause. View pilots in America. They get out in their uniforms with signs advocating for their conditions. Australian pilots sit behind keyboards and complain that somebody should do something. Great gains only come great effort and great risk. Remember, the delegates are just your representatives, don't expect them to do anything you wouldn't do yourself.
At last some realism in the whole industrial action narrative. Not just for Virgin but for the whole industry. PIA in and of itself is useless unless the entire pilot body of whatever airline is prepared to put some skin in the game. simply voting yes on the ballot and then sitting at the local pilot pub while a small group of pilots take the financial hit and don't show up for their rostered duty is not industrial action! Get out to the airport and publicise your grievance. As VE highlighted this is what the Americans do and they get the pay rises. This is what the TWU and all those unions that take industrial action seriously. You ask anyone now what they want from PIA and all you get is "We just want to show 'em" When you dig deeper and ask what it is that they will be showed, its like a roo in the headlights.