Let's face it folks, the world of business is all about driving down costs and outsourcing these days. For driving down costs read reducing salaries, for outsourcing read cutting Western employment levels.
The Financial services industry have driven down costs and cut western employment levels by sending all their call-centre work to Bangalore, Mumbay and New Dheli etc. What is to say that airlines will now start recruiting 2nd and 3rd world pilots tocrew aircraft. Loads of redundant Russian pilots out there following the end of the 'cold war' and a salary of £10,000pa goes a long way over there. I have flown central Eurpoean and African Regional, the planes are a bit scarey but one gets up and lands, the pilots do not speak English but since when did the Law of Flight require English to be spoken to make a plane fly. I agree make a stand fight for your right but as long as Joe Soap public is continually told 'it is your right to enjoy cheap xy&z' salaries will continue to be squeezed, redundancies continue and pretty soon we will all be earning the same as a Chinese rice picker and having to smuggle our way into some far flung shore to work as an illegal...unless the Public wake up and realise that most things cost money to produce/manufacture. By demanding cheaper food, cars, flights, holidays we are bringing about our own downfall. Karl Marx must his hands saying "told you so!!!"
