you're completely right ted, everyone does have their own agenda and MOL must love having it that way. if he keeps everyone pissed off at the bases to the point where they'd accept less t's and c's just, for example, to get home to their wife and new born baby, then he is delighted. look at the current situation in lpl, leading upto the pay negotiations the base is flooded with a mismatch of pilots, esp. captains. hardly any of the new upgrades want to be based there (and not just because it's liverpool!), they want to get home in their days off so they'll sell their grandmothers for 4 days off, and PB doesn't let anyone move because of this (despite promises...)
i'd say it is still a good place to work- but purely the job satisfaction: people you sit next to in the flght deck and the girls down the back- you can have a laugh with, even though they might be cramped- there is generally a good atmosphere in the crew rooms, the pay (even though it may be reducing....) is good.
grim repa, isn't it best for repa to just say what you've said then? we all know we can't get anywhere while we're not all headed towards the same goal. the only way we are going to make progress is getting union recognition (small task i know...) but we all spend so long arguing about these !!!!ty pay negotiations that MOL must be finding it hilarious how we're not spending this time talking about the bigger picture.
jejUNITY, jejUNITY, jejUNITY