We Pilots are in this for the long run. We have career's, not jobs. We move families and hopes and dreams to where we think and hope we will build good careers. To say, if you don't like it leave is simplistic to say the least for just that reason. Investment in the company. "Sweat Equity" if you will. Which is why there is such a back-lash against the company when they pull this kind of stunt.
I don't know how a Company working in today's Global Marketplace can keep the management practices of an Imperialistic time. Colonialism is dead. The model of WestJet,SouthWest, Continental and GE work. The results prove it.
Cathay is making beef buckets full of money now, just imagine how much they could make with a happy contented work force...
TTYL