...this company just can't seem to help themselves from antagonising us further....!! This is in effect another ASL....and with larger implications for the future. The company seems to have decided that, not content with just devaluing the competent and professional aircrew they already have, they are now taking it a step further and beginning to employ aircrew from 'third world countries'....and pay them accordingly. The thinking is obvious. Use the present body of professional checkers and trainers to train pilots who, in years to come will, a)happily work for much less money, and b) never contemplate 'industrial' action. It is time we told this management just what we think about their continuing and unrelenting psychotic determination to degrade and devalue us. The 31 of March is almost upon us. Perhaps a little 'message' of our displeasure is appropriate on that date. If we don't use the commercial advantages we have now to re-establish a sense of fairness and professional respect from our management, then we never will. You might as well all make plans to find another job, because in a few very short years the present (unlivable) conditions we now experience will seem like 'paradise' to what is to come. If you think I am being alarmist, then just look back at how drastically things have changed between 1990 and today. This airline is run by immoral, corrupt and self-serving individuals (KB, RF,NR...etc) who's ONLY interest is to feather their own nests, at the expense of everything they once believed in. They need stopping. They are running scared, and it will take only a very small 'push' to send this whole operation of the edge of the cliff. We need to ALL take a stand against this obvious attack on our futures. If we, don't, we won't have a future. There is no longer the luxury available to any of us of doing 'nothing'. We must ALL now do our part. We can beat this management, as our colleauges in the US have done so comprehensively to thier managements. This employment, and home basing of Malaysians is the biggest threat yet, far bigger than ASL was. Take the time to understand WHY it is such a long-range threat, and then understand that there is no longer any option to standing up to this continual destruction of our careers. Next thing will be the employing of Thais, based in Thailand, Singaporeans based in Singapore, and Bulgarians, based in Europe. What do you think your chances of a well paying, long lasting career will be then....? Stop it NOW.