Drop the wages claim.
QF pilots are desperately claiming that it is "nothing to do with salaries and is only about the off-shoring".
How is anybody supposed to believe that when the media are presenting it as basically a wages claim? This is not the fault of the media. Whilst there is a wages component to the demands then the media are entitled to report it that way.
Shout as loudly as you like that it is "not about the salaries" but nobody will believe you.
Drop the wages claim.