Well written post but just another Pravda periodical. Naturally the AOA have been blameless for these ten years. The bogey man of management has been very busy. How about actually discussing the issues openly. What about eight years of contract compliance ie work to rule, what about not answering the phone or taking messages from the company causing tremendous disruption to the company and yourselves and that ridiculous 'work safe' campaign. What about many pilots using the system to be sick at short notice thus affecting the company, other aircrew and the travelling public. The 49ers are the result of a long period of union action against the company and directly resulted from an increase in that activity. The dispute over this year, what dispute? Surely a dispute requires two protagonists? Get a new committee then we could have a dispute that would have a hope of resolution.