With the price of oil at a 21 year high, with the oil companies at supposedly maximum production and demand higher than ever, is this not the time to give our employers an ultimatum?
The oil companies are making record profits (again!!) and it is their greed which holds down the contract prices for the aviation services they depend on. And let us not loose sight of that fact: THEY DEPEND ON HELICOPTERS.
Our employers, regardless of where we operate, are all talking to each other and are just as greedy as the client oil companies. (Remember the $18 million bonus to the Air Log directors!). OLOG are the 'owners' of the company I work for: their management techniques have travelled well across the Atlantic to the UK!!
I, like most of my colleagues, do not like the idea of strike action; but our fear is almost certainly less than that of the management. The very thought of disruption during the current economic situation is giving them sleepless nights; or it SHOULD be!!
Should the guys at AIr Log decide to withdraw their labour, they deserve the support of ALL of us. If they fail, we all fail!