Welcome to PPRuNe, oldbird. There are only a very few 'crew bashers' on here, many of us either support the vast 'silent' majority or are in fact married/cohabiting to/with crew. So we are on your side and have been trying to point out what would happen in this case for some while. Read back through this thread and its predecessors and you will see many postings with predictions of these current events.
The only people who get short shrift on here are the "Bassa 100%" brigade who merely spout the propaganda they have been fed by the Lala brigade.
I hope the crew come out of this with a new, leaner agreement, but it didn't have to happen this way.