Why refuse SYB?
our organisational culture. Autocratic, paranoid and punitive.
ruserious is spot on. Add to that the jump-seat interdiction. Why should i have a guy controlling me on this very jump-seat and if a collegue or my wife would like to travel on it, i would get the red card? Heard about the skipper who took someone on it in an emotional emergency? Talkin' about compassion by our company: they punished him with the removal of the profit share!
I agree that looking at the idea of LOSA a refusal is not very logic. Looking at what EK wanted and still would like to do with it, it's pure survival.
Apart from that, i'd like to see the majority refusing and EK taking that as the signal it represents: We disapprove of their managing style. Some walk in the absence of dialogue and cooperation, others will not (for the moment) for various reasons. But here at least we might pass on a message.