Well Well Well: get a job in a nice shiny spiv-machine and all the (new) boys are happy. If only you knew what was happening. We are all being shafted big time, you all have the AFAP and fallen comrades to thank for the salaries you are on today: without them, you'd be on monkeys wages. In a few years, you WILL be on monkeys wages unless you fight to maintain the standard!
How come a general manager blunt, with a under-waterbasket-weaving degree largely funded by us the taxpayer, responsible for no-one, earn as much as us, or have the audacity to tell us we get paid to much? Yeh, I'm only in charge of $40m of machinery, 140 lives and get put thru the hoop every 6 months! "Yeh, I'll take $120k for flying an A320 on 12 overnights a month, no allowances!".
I suggest you young sprogs take a good long hard viagra look at yourself and reposition yourselves on the food chain: you're worth AT LEAST as much as you're getting now, if not more!