Strike in MAS is not an option. MAS considered as national carrier. Any strike talk will be considered as sabotage to the government. And government will use the ISA (Internal Security Act), ie jail without court order for at least 2 years.
Gov has a special branch (SB) stationed in any company where there is a gov interest. Latest SB was stationed at crewing section (dept which monitor crew utilization) after the report leak that a lot of flt delayed coz of nil pilots. The idea was to find out if pilots are sabotaging MAS by purposely refusing or delaying any flt.
The fact is most pilots are limited by FTL. Most are reaching the max allowed FTL.
The monthly roster now is just another piece of paper which by the end of the month, we might just do 60% of the rostered flt. The rest either called up frm standby or we just can't do the flt coz of the high hours.....