To all my A-scale colleagues. If any of you are under any illussions regarding the companies future intentions towards you, I suggest you look at the recent comments from Tony Tyler regarding your salaries. In response to Nigel Demery commenting that the A-scale is the 'present''going rate' for the job, Tony was quick to say that he (ie: management) thought that A-scale was ABOVE the going rate, and that B-scale is the 'proper' rate for the job. Needless to say, those of us who still wish to stick their heads in the sand and hope this will all go away are foolishly deluded. There is NO chance that the company will cease in attacking our salaries and benefits...NONE. If you don't stand and fight now, you are GUARANTEED to lose the very thing you seek to preserve. The ONLY thing this company understands is power and pain. It is time we subjected them to some of thier own medicine. We have been compliant fools (BusAce...you listening?) for the past 8 years, and look where it has taken us. We now suffer from some of the WORST conditions in the industry (especially when compared to our home carriers). It is imperative that those amongst us who still think that being a compliant, weak and frightened individual equates to security be made to see that the ONLY way to preserve and protect our profession is through UNITY and APPLIED ACTION. The days of hoping our management will come to thier senses is over. Be under NO illussion; our management THRIVE on contempt for us. They would rather compromise the long-term health of the company to fulfull their own twisted and malignant agenda against the pilots. What insanity has allowed this airline to reach the depths of dysfunction it now suffers from? I left management over 2 years ago becuase it was obvious that the agenda of the likes of Tyler, Turnbull and others was nothing more than a personal vendetta against aircrew, and the realisation that they could increase their own bonuses at our expense. Realise now that if you don't fight them, if we don't stick together,.....we are doomed professionaly in this company. We have allowed them to hurt us for far too long....and it is time it was stopped. Again I re-iterate, read carefully Tylers comment regarding our A-scale salaries, and realise that he is saying we are STILL paid too much, even AFTER paycuts of over 30%....!!!! He is telling us through that comment what his next agenda items are.....and we will be fighting for our very survival if we don't stand up against this tryanny now.