Your strike seems to carry several of the characteristic trademarks our Airline Dispute of 1989 in Australia bore
SAS is taking all the pilot organizations to court. They demand that the strike be called illigal and that all the pilots who are on strike go right back to work and aditionally pay an amout of 10'000 SKR (about 1000 Euro). They are also listing all the pilots by name.
The companies also declared our tactics unlawful which then gave them the legal grounds on which to apply (successfully) for the cancellation of our current work agreements.
We were ordered to go back to work
The Prime Minister (who was best of mates with Rupert Murdoch, and Peter Abeles - joint owners of Ansett) wanted to JAIL us.
The companies started issuing writs on individual pilots for "unspecified damages", due to flight cancellations on which those pilots were scheduled. Our union was served a $7 million writ, as was each one of the union`s pricipal members. (None of those were ever actioned.)
From that experience, I believe we were not a aggressive as we should have been, in presenting OUR side of the story to ALL the media.
Let the media know HOW the management have shafted you.
Make the salary packages of the management very public.
Hold regular meetings - split into sub groups of say 10 or 12 to help each other out.
Don`t doubt that the company wants ALL of YOU back - this is why they are taking drastic measures now, to try to create a trickle (back) that they hope will turn to a flood.
What they (the companies) still seem have not learnt, is that the more pressure they apply to pilots, the more determined we become in seeing an EQUITABLE solution being achieved.
If a
few SAS top management are unable to negotiate with
hundreds of their employees, then it is time the few were replaced with people who are.