More than likely, Max Cont., you'll find that it is one or two MANAGERS who have CREATED the alienation of the majority of the workforce loyalties from MANAGEMENT.
It is not the Company, per se, with which pilots and other employees have a problem, but the occasional meglomaniac who feels a NEED to justify his overblown salary, and/or to try to gain further recognition or advancement, because of what he perceives will be seen as a "value-added" change.
Certainly, in the short term (and the modern world is one where instant gratification, or immediate results, are expected) there may well be a cost-saving - however, the P-off Factor which makes human nature respond, as is indicated by the text of "An Army of One (or 1,000, or 2,000, or 3,000)", is FAR MORE costly and destructive in the medium and long term.
Unfortunately it is the Company's revenue that is affected - but the ROOT CAUSE and REASON is the Management that did NOT think these affects through.
It IS possible to have a Company wherein Management and the workforce are synergistic, and the Company PROSPERS. Where sometimes tough Management decisions HAVE to be made - but sympathetic endorse and assist with their implementation.
The change in management "style" is obvious to almost ALL, M.C. - thus necessitating a change in the type of response from those being attacked by them, their own staff!