Well I'm sure you'll be pleased when Willy starts and he takes you luddites on - if he doesn't we won't survive, can't you grasp that?
Benchmarking? Compare yourselves to other airlines - you're paid 50% more, but you don't add 50% to the bottom line.
VS pilots similar pay to BA,
VS cabin crew half BA LH cabin crew.
What about KLM, Air France, Lufty? You're paid nearly double them - and they're not a miserable bunch whingers.
With all your MBT days, perhaps you could put together a business model on how we're supposed to compete.
BA couldn't sign you up to an AMP, as they're short of crew anyway and couldn't aford to weaken the weakest link further.
Go back to the shadows - PPRuNe - something about Pilots Forum in there.