Well said golfyankeesierra. It's a bit pointless someone making comment and judgement without having a clue what this is about.
This is not about asking for increased pay, better T+Cs, etc.
This is about fighting to halt a managerial decision to reduce our T+Cs. Deciding to remove (refresh!) crew food which has already been paid for out of our previously reduced salary, removing tea and coffee for God's sake!, and reducing crew water!! (Health and safety issues there at the very least!) This is about stopping the use of contract captains, while at the same time telling our SFOs in the command hold pool that there are no positions for them.
It's alright trying to appear high and mighty and condescending about this, but it wasn't too long ago that BA pilots were willing to strike to protect their T+Cs over the Open Skies issue. There are obviously a lot more details to this than I have posted here, but suffice to say this is not about asking for payrises (unlike AH and JC awarding themselves 10% and 20% payrises in recent days!)