Purerisk and Normasar
Please do let us know when you need our support in the future when you're caught between a rock and a hard place, re pay and conditions.
Speaking only for myself the conditions accepted, whilst unpalatable were easy to accept for the following reasons:
- The other option was probably a choice between downgrade to F/O and move across the country at considerable financial cost, not to mention the disruption to my wife's career; or retrenchment.
- The sure knowledge that no one in the industry would offer any solidarity and that had the pilot group said no, either, the work would have gone elsewhere, or some one who was prepared to pay would have moved in and filled the position, probably before my pigeon hole was empty.
I refute your suggestions that I am puting pressure on your wages and conditions. If you're not getting what you're prepared to accept, quit or go on strike to get more! Simple, isn't it?