Well I think you should answer who or not make the claim!
And just how long do you think this forum would last in that reality?
And I agree with your last post completely...in fact taking a world view it is happening already...Australia is, as usual, dragging along behind the rest of the world...witness 85% payrises for ATCOs in the middle east and then view the AsA threads...bits and bobs of payrises happening for pilots here and there throughout the expat world as airlines compete for an apparently, constrained resource...and that will flow on in Australia when Australian airlines realise that they will have to compete with airlines in Asia and the ME..even EU, for the services of pilots and engineers.
CEOs suggest they are a world resource and must be remunerated accrdingly...well now so to are many other segments of Labour...notably in our industry pilots and engineers.
Going by the (admitedly extreme) example of CEOs I'd say that is a bloody excellent turn of events.