There has to be a middle ground and grown ups do it right despite having many heated discussions about it. There can be no stubbornness.
Who wouldn't agree 'but' there seems to be no middle ground and any 'heated discussions' would end up in being fired... or so the current perception goes.
The recent captain's conferences are a case in point. Conference:
a formal meeting that typically takes place over a number of days and involves people with a shared interest, esp. one held regularly by an association or organization
Replace 'conference' with a fatuous 2 hour summons to hear a 100 minute monologue from TCAS with an additional 20 minutes of ignorant rubbish from ED and M&M and we have what some would like to think as meaningful dialogue instead of a reading of the riot act. More sad than these idiots trying to appear as if they care was many of 'the commanders' willing to let a few take them to task about the issues and our perceived lack of support whilst they all kept quiet... keeping their heads down. Utter BS.
We need middle ground, but such is the mistrust and distain held on both sides of the management verses pilot workforce divide that fundamentally we're doomed to fail. There is patently no respect or trust.
It is going to get worse. As TCAS runs roughshod over any perceptions of terms and conditions, unilaterally opening the doors to DECs by engineering it to be harder for our own pilots to make the transition, the cheap short term options will arrive in due course.
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
TCAS hasn't been anywhere near where we are.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
The tide will turn one day and EK will pay the price. Until then it is a training ground and source of very experienced, professional pilots that will have the option to go somewhere else eventually.