From what i've seen whenever there is industrial action involving pilots anybody who is not a pilot seems to look upon us as overpaid, oversexed sunglass wearing jet jockies!. We are mostly overworked, underpaid and most definately under appreciated. Lets say you are part of a medium size jet crew, you have the responsibility of many lives and a multi-million dollar company asset. The aircraft is worth more than a lot of small companies whose CEO probaly earns twice as much as your average skipper and he's probably boning the secretary too. If ,God forbid, anything goes wrong with a flight it's the pilots who are questioned first. We cannot allow bean counter management to undermine us and I say let's support Alitalia and other pilots who are willing to make a stand. When it's all said and done managment don't care about pilots and they would all be happier without us so F##K them.