I don't know of any Airline Pilot that wishes for a strike. However, when a company pushes the pilot group into a corner it becomes a 'make or break' for that pilot group. Bend over now and the company will have the means to lower T&C's continually. Consequently the pilot group has little choice but to gather support and fight any unilateral changes to T&C's.
In Easyjet, the way this latest communication was released and what it proposes has been enough to see the Pilots pull together, long time non members of the union are rejoining and the levels were pretty high before hand. It saddens me personally that this is the way we have to work but that is what, FATCAT SHORT TERM managers who will be gone in a matter of months, want.