The home of B scale and now C scale pay - perhaps if you hadn't bent over and allowed DE-FO pay in Aus to drop to $92K the J* pilots would have had more ammunition to bargain for better conditions.
Actually, Condition Lever, the CX Pilot body voted down the original $92K deal in late 2006, but the company imposed it anyway effective 2008. Labour law is different in Hong Kong!
CX Pilots had no say in the matter...