Fester
While I sympathise with anyone who isn't paid a decent & liveable wage & I've no doubt the airlines are to blame, I think its unfair that innocent pax have to suffer.
So whats your solution? - if management refuse to negotiate what other options are there?
Whatever industry your in, if the workforce go out on strike its the customers who suffer - airlines are no different to anyone else.
As to the timing - Union legislation means that there are certain steps have to go through before a strike can be called - OK the unions could delay the strike until a wet-wednesday in October but as I said before - this has been going on since last year - we have been trying to negotiate a settlement for 8 months - this October we are supposed to start talking about
next years pay claim. You cannot keep dragging out negotiations that are going nowhere.