The main problem is that longer serving MON pilots, especially the CC, are fat dumb and happy. They are on the nice fleets with PHI, Final salary pension and excellent wages, by any industry standard. Most line guys are truly astonished to discover that we are so far behind the industry standards, let alone their package.
The CC and pilot body allowed appalling conditions to be imposed on new joiners and what little fight was put up was ONLY to prevent the possibility of erosion of their pay, as we would be able to negotiate separate pay awards by virtue of the fact that we would have had an entirely separate pay scale.
The CC accepts that all life style enhancing negotiations have to be cost neutral. Why is that? Everyone other similar carrier has these protections so why do we just roll over? They also allow us to be compared to RYR et al. Why? They aren't flying A330's (when they get they aren't out of check), nor are they doing deep night flights and getting 20+ plot changes a month.
Why would the management improve terms and conditions for new joiners when they are well aware that the majority of the pilots and especially the CC, have everything they need and therefore no commitment to the real confrontation that is required. However all is not lost, after a bitter struggle they have persuaded the company to allow them to set up a committee to discuss pensions! Well we'll eat that when we get to 65 shall we???