teresa, thank you for your sage advice. We have learnt much from the politics & cronyism of 89, the asset stripping of Ansett by Murdoch, the attempted looting of Qantas by Geoff Dixon, David Coe et al APA bid as well as the deregulation & destruction of the industry in the US by the predator class (executives). Some of us have studied the GFC and watched the wholesale destruction of the middle & working classes in the US, UK, Greece, Ireland, Spain & Portugal by the top 0.1%, first by inflation, then deflation.
In short, we know exactly what is going on, theft, plain & simple. There is a direct attempt to transfer the wealth of one group to another by nefarious methods. We know the motivation, we have seen almost all the methods.
The microscope is now on the executives, every single move is being watched intensely. The previous methods relied on the relative nativity of the targets to the true motives. This is no longer true, and the unions & workers in general appear to be well aware of it, and are much more sophisticated in their approach. There is no longer a fig leaf for the executives to hide behind.