Through previous good times and bad, crew pay has remained low. My point is if you want to get crew back on side, something, if not pay, has to happen. Make the people who are accountable, accountable.
It will be vastly more damaging for VS crew as a union, to capitulate now. Negotiation is about compromise. It all rests on the 20th Dec on what action both sides will take. If a strike is the outcome, negotiations will continue and probably lead to 4.8% with reduced strings.
We wait and see.