When he arrived in January he said he didn't really know what the pilots were upset about.
This may come as a bit of a surprise, but many of the population share this view.
I am not endorsing what I am about to say as fair or even just, but the t&c's of many employees in the UK have changed significantly over the past 20 years and they have had to accept that.
So Mr McCarthy may be a little cleverer than you are giving him credit for, since as Noam Chomsky demonstrated with his comments about the holocaust, a little epxression of doubt can be very powerful.