Tabasco Kid. I agree wholeheartedly with what you say but the apathy among our colleagues is strong.
I flew with someone the other day who showed me his BALPA membership form already signed just not dated, "if you guys vote for action I'll join immediately" were his words.
Another colleague asked why we need BALPA and not a pilots council which worked well in his old company. For

sake these people are either tight, stupid or both.
Loungelizard summed it up on the thread about Emirates when he said:
Pilot's are known to be a weak and gutless mob when it comes to joining together and enforce change.
How true.