Don't you just love how teachers, nurses, foxtel workers, cab drivers, train drivers, bus drivers, librarians (the list goes on...) can strike at the drop of a hat. And people generally support their cause. Yet cabin crew (who have had one stint at industrial action in the recent future) are branded as "spolit" and "princesses" with a gung-ho, militant union out to ruin the company!
The FAAA has taken far less industrial action than many other unions in the transport/service industry.
My two cents.