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Just get used to the fact that you have signed (as I have) a contract that allows your employer to alter policy at will with no impact upon contracted terms. Do I support this fact? No.
But you do support it by doing NOTHING about it. You are willing to sit and take it. This may be all you can do in your particular field and I do appreciate that the option consistantly advised by the pro EK lobby on this forum 'if you don't like it leave' may not be open to you.
However, many (open to debate) do not like it and have, or are in the process of, leaving. Compound this with pilots not turning up for interviews or accepting employment offers then EK will be short of crews. Those they do have will/are being exposed to unacceptable working conditions which will/has threaten safety and ultimately EKs future. If you do not believe this then you may have a case to be 'neutral', if you do accept some of this then you are spineless.
Not even the lure of 777s and 380s are now convincing crews away from high paying 'low fare' operators. Times have changed and EK is failing to adapt and keep pace with what is happening in the job market. Instead of being proactive and 'ensuring the very highest of standards' they are deliberatly waiting to react and are allowing standards to decline.
If that 'vague and open' contract we've signed is now damaging the company then the flexibility that is built in for the company by the company should be used to fix the real problems we now face & not exasibate them.