Easyjet pilots might like to consider the huge favour they will be doing the UK industry's pilots by going on strike. There is a developing culture of contempt amongst employers for pilots, driven by the perceived "success" of the Ry@nair approach.
Dont forget that all the senior employers get together at the "Aviation Club of London", a lunching club for them. How 'easy' it would be for a cartel view to emerge amongst them all with respect to pay, conditions and treatment of 'those infuriating technicians', as they see it, they are forced to employ and whose pay limits their room for executive bonuses.
Its all about power and greed, and they perceive that they have all of the former so can indulge in the latter, at your expense. I doubt easy or any other management group in the contemporary UK airline scene care if the heart attack rate, for example, is up as long as productivity is sky high. Indeed, things have become so cynical that I am sure a view exists that anything that reduces the number of people at the top of the pay scale is no bad thing from an employers perspective.
The first airline to adopt the Southwest (USA version, not the UK one that recently announced that it would be charging pilots for water drunk whilst on duty), methods IN FULL with their staff will have a world-beating business on their hands. Sad that the average UK/ EI employer just cant see that, and sticks to the Victorian millowner approach.
Best of luck to you all and thanks for leading the charge.