PaulW - can I just ask where your figures of 15% in, 33% out come from?
The only reason I ask is because they are wrong. No group takes out more than it (+ the company's contributions) pays in. IIRC, flight crew pay in 28% and take out 27.6%.
Your figures are probably ignoring the company contribution, in which case using the same maths, engineers (which you are 1 I see) would also tske out twice what they put in.
Please dont just listen to your union. I've spent the last 3 trips explaining to CC where our £9m 'bribe' came from. To a man/woman they have all looked appalled at the lies their union has told them.
(For those that dont know, we added the money to the pot by passing up the offer of phasing in our 10 year increase to our retirement age. So the company saved £9m from FC, and £6m from CC and added it to the pot. Not quite what you have been told I expect.)