Business 101: Step X - Drive down costs. It's one of the fundamental aspects of business management in a strategy to remain perceptionally competitive.
QF managers are going to continue to target costs until they hit a wall and then they'll push again anyway. It's in their training and the corporate group-think of the current crop of managers. Get used to it. Unless you designate a line in the sand as a group, you're going to have your wages and benefits continually cherry picked.
Make it a personal battle and you'll come out the losers.