Hary Carin,
Don't know where you get your info but it is wrong.
"Too many pilots", you must be joking! For the last five years I am working as a contractor and each year I get more and more calls. They start calling earlier and earlier and again and again.The T& C's are going up every day. Only exception: FR, they offer less now than two years ago. At that time they were market leader, now they are almost at the bottom end.