I for one was very impressed with the story, for once the media has fairly accurately reported the facts of the true state of this industry.
I'm not sure what it's going to take before the industry as a whole stands up and says this is enough, why is it that pilots 'accept' that their hard earned licenses, endorsments etc are 'worth' 21K in a remote area, if that operator cannot afford to pay it's pilots what they deserve(an award wage), then why continue to operate, they could obviously afford to pay more, but why would they bother when the pilots accept it.
Other operators use the RHS of their aircraft as a money making machine, fail to have a serviceable autopilot(saves $$), get them to pay for an endorsement(makes $$$), then promise them all limited amounts of time of 'paid' work, give them that then they get someone else through the door. Flying schools use the same ways but putting on casuals, expecting them to do marketing, answer phones, wash planes and only get paid when they fly. Most of them have to work night jobs, and a lot of them are half asleep at the schools due to lack of sleep.....next to that half of them have less than 300 hours training someone else how to fly.
The government, operators and pilots themselves are killing this industry, which group will stand up and try and stop it, guarantee it won't be the pilots.