Perhaps times have changed, (and perhaps they haven't), but "the 12" might like to take a moment to ask one of the old hands in the company what the EK management's reaction was to just the suspicion (unfounded, as it turned out) that the then newly arrived Australian pilots in EK were attempting to form a union.
That was some 15 years ago and the Australians were very disgruntled over... gosh, was it? - could it have been DECs and upgrades at the whim of the then Chief Pilot?
Seems some things never change - and that might well include the attitude of EK management to something like this.