Their company is losing a million a day (that's before the strike!) and expect to carry on with their snouts in the trough.
I simply do not get it - how could anyone want Unite to represent the pilot community?
Because if you look at where they've drawn their line in the sand for a company that is hemorrhaging cash and which offers great employment conditions - imagine where they'd draw it for a company which is making cash and which doesn't offer great employment conditions.
All the timid slowly-slowly catchey-monkey has achieved is to let the monkey grow into a silverback that is mounting you as we speak.