For Swiss outsiders: If you came this far in this thread you probably realized there is a battle going on between the union of former Crossair (CCP, now SPA for Swiss Pilots Association) and former Swissair (Aeropers).
Players form each side are easy to identify, watch the games!!!
It is not only about salary, there is also seniority, more specifically job security, career opportunities and profit sharing to name a few.
For example if the high risk company Swiss had to be resized, the first couple of hundred pilots who had to be layed off would almost solely be former Crossair pilots, according to the currently proposed new collective work agreement.
Also obviously there is a discussion about whether Swissair really went bankrupt or not, or if it was just by mistake that the banks decided to buy Crossair out of 6 billion debt Sair group...
In Switzerland everybody but former Swissair pilots seems to agree on the fact that the two biggest banks bought Crossair out of Sair-Group before they went bankrupt, because it was a company which could function on its own and was with about 24% equity financially very sound.
Swissair on the other hand was so interlinked with Sair, that it couldn't function on its own any more.
Speculations about what would have happened, if the banks wouldn't have bought Crossair and if our world was different then it is are in my opinion quite boring.