Perhaps the only way to stop the Airline bosses is a more radical approach by the unions. The first thing they should do is get rid of seniority lists.
It sounds crazy but:
Command will still be on "seniority" - ie experience.
I don't know of any other profession in the world where someone with 20 years experience can't freely move to another company and continue - pilots who leave one company for another become "the teaboy" again.
Next time your union leaders are negociating with management - suggest scrapping the seniority list, I'll bet they would hate the idea - because it protects management far more than it protects the pilots. Once you'r in - and been there a couple of years - moving is not so easy. But if all the unions did it together - that would be benificial to all pilots.
Just my 10 cents worth!