Ess Jay, I'm sorry to say that you are quite right about the fact that the reason our COS has continued to deteriorate is because we haven't done anything about it.
As a result we continue to have the same problem. CX continues to find new ways of improving their profits at the expense of our COS. (I don't suppose that it would be too much of a stretch to say that they would like to see all of us on local terms, that would still be subject to change at the sole discretion of the company.) This thread is about employing pilots on local conditions based in KUL, which is yet another example of cx attempting to reduce our COS by eroding it from the bottom...exactly as they did with B scales. They got away with B scales so why not try it again?
My point with my earlier post is that there are more and less effective ways of dealing with this problem. To tell all of the pilots in the world, who might think of taking a job with cx on reduced conditions, that they better not erode our COS like that, seems to me to be one of the less effective ways. As far as I know that tactic has never worked in the past and I can't imagine that it will work now. It may even serve to alienate our colleagues who are with us now because they took a job on a reduced COS (most of us now), which obviously wasn't reduced to them or they wouldn't have taken the job. Right now we need everybody to stick together so I think that any idea that causes us to splinter apart is a bad idea.
Right now we have 3 options:
1)Do nothing and wait for an ever continuing erosion of our COS.
2)Leave cx and fix the problem for ourselves,or
3)Stand up as a unified group and actually do something about the problem.
You Decide, but in any case placing the responsibility for our problems on the shoulders of the boys from KUL is a copout.
cheers