Sponge,
Far be it for me to try to increase your powers of absorption...but..
One does not have to be a great student of history to realise that the AOA is not a union, never has been and never will be. It was only when it thought it should be that this whole convoluted mess got out of control.
As alluded to...well covered in posts going back years.
I did enjoy your policy statement though. Problem is you need to find a unionised airline..and CX is not one.
History is history. Most of us have moved on. Doesn't mean we forget what happened but you must realise that preventing further detrioration in T&C's will not come from any form of militancy.
It will not be easy given the current CEO and a number of senior management with guilty consciences.
What we had, came about by simple supply and demand and a need Swire had at the time to keep people in uncertain times.
The stars are aligning again. Rattling the cage will not help...only reasoned debate.
I agree with you on the solidairity bit but suspect that is too much to ask of Generation Y.
I hope all that bile doesn't give you an ulcer.