Chr!st!
Here we go again.
OK, we'll offer you a pay rise but only because we care....
and by the way, just leave your first born on the chair on the way out.
While companys continue to play the "what are you going to offer us in return" game, the smart players, (mind you haven't seen too many so far), will pinch what is left of their drivers by offering real incentives, without the strings.
Every 2 or 3 years we go cap in hand to these clowns and literally beg for a CPI wage rise! We have never even come close to that small and obvious right, without sacrificing conditions. 10 years of one sided "negotiations" has led us to the place we are today. Crap wages and crap conditions. For that very reason, suitably qualified pilots are becoming difficult to attract, and even more difficult to keep.
Yet these blokes (management types) still try to bung it on!!!
Well all I can say is, keep up the brinkmanship, the stall tactics, and all the strings attached, and your business will pay the price.