Carmoisine has it about right; Hudson Bay is a sad example of getting it totally wrong. Calling Ryanair pilots spineless, etc. will achieve nothing for him and others like him. If he is so sure that the reason Ryanair pilots are in the position they are in simply because they are happy to roll over and accept the crappy conditions thrust upon them, then he would be entirely correct. However, the pilot body is almost unanimous in their attitude to the Ryanair management but are essentially powerless in the face of MOL and BALPA's lack of action.
This inaction stems from the almost hopeless position the pilots and the unions find themselves when facing MOL and his Irish lawyers. Recognition of BALPA or any other Union in Ryanair will be a long and uphill struggle even if 90% of the pilots voted in favour. MOL will simply ignore them, fire them, move them, close a base here and there, reduce their pay further and generally demoralise them further than they already are. So what is the way forward?
Come on Hudson Bay, give us your ideas instead of wailing about the attitude of the Ryanair pilots. Do some constructive thinking and let us know how you can help us out of this mess.
You are right in thinking that the cancer will spread to you and others like you if nothing is done. MOL is the role model for all CEOs and Financial Directors around the world, revered as the face of modern management.
Stand United and fight? You can't fight with one hand tied behind your back and an enemy that you will never meet.
Reams have been written here and elsewhere on this subject and over the past several years, absolutely no progress has been made. Don't pin it on the Ryanair pilots who have been struggling for years under the terms and conditions imposed on them.
Change, sadly, might well never come about in the Ryanair pilots favour and blaming them for it is a waste of energy. Better to direct your anger and wrath at MOL and his like. Write to your MP and MEP. Write to the TUC and Unison, write to the press, repeatedly and often.
Or simply shut the f++k up.
Happy New Year.