As I said...must be an EU type thing...you folks need to get over it or leave the industry...things are what they are because of the way you've let them become....don't really have these probs in the USA...
BTW...how many of you "whining" so called ""I'm flying the LHS or nothing, my job is Captain" types could pass a JAR conversion today?
Get over it...as for your union...ck out the NWA thread ref: ALPA and the mechanics....