Perhaps it could be hailed an industrial awakening, but isnt it time we took into account the current situation we're in and realise that a 3% payrise is NOT a given?
People enjoy getting up on their soap box and giving sermon to whoever will listen, ranting on about the worth of the humble Engineer. Unfortunately the managers in the aviation industry today dont hold us in such high esteem.
The bans currently in place are proving detrimental to maintaining or growing the work that keeps engineers in a job, and is promoting a thinking within management circles about how to control such rogue actions. Naturally thoughts turn to outsourcing of maintenance, and its no secret out there that Corrigan wants to set up a 'joint' maintenance facility for Virgin and......!
Give the lead back to our union and let them fight out the issues in a thought out, planned manner. We undermine their power and plans by taking matters into our own hands, which may inevitably prove disastorous for us all.