I have absolutely no problem reading about how you are all going to apply pressure and Marxist policies etc etc to solve the problem of management versus pilots as you perceive it.
With 46 years of experience in this business I have to tell you that I have heard it all before.
What I do have a problem with is the wonderful title of this thread and the word "exodus" in particular.
Perhaps some of you experts out there (including, and especially the starter of the thread) could give us your definition of the word "exodus".
My concise Oxford dictionary gives me:
"Departure, going forth (esp. of body of emigrants); departure of Israelites from Egypt;"
Now, the funny thing is that every single company that I have ever worked for (apart from Mrs Windsor and Fred Laker) went through what the promising hysterics among you called an "exodus" - sometimes on an annual basis. Not one of those companies actually suffered such an "exodus" such that the management actually gave a !!!!!.
Trying to explain to them that losing 5% of a highly trained workforce and that each pilot had cost £20 - £30,000 to train always fell upon deaf ears. No one in management gave a toss about such figures. In terms of operating costs, such a loss was considered to be insignificant.
Nowadays, when the company concerned doesn't even have to pay for the training required for a type-rating and, indeed, might even make a small profit from this process, the loss of even 10% of the work force per annum would not even begin to concern them.
I have even been heavily involved in the process of getting the management to treat the pilots more decently so as to "retain the workforce" and that failed miserably because the dis-satisfied pilots were going to go off anyway to pastures green.
Anyway, keep beating your gums and coming up with the ultimate solution to all of our problems.
Those of us who have been around for the best part of half a century will be fascinated to see how far you get.