Like manufacturing protectionism won't work. The consumer is driving this bus and will vote with their wallets. Politicians are powerless in this Global paradigm shift of all sorts of capital including labour.
Let's get smart in aviation and pull together and do what it takes to move forward. The workers have the most to lose here so urgently engage with management in a constructive way to see how together we can grow the far. It must be on a collective manner. The threats of strikes etc in aviation only alienates the travelling public. You will get NO support from the masses particularly when you are seen by them to be gouging from a perceived position of being well paid and conditioned now. Remember the lessons from 1989.
Pick up the phone and start talking to the management about an engaging compact.
{if you want to see what Government thinks of industries and local jobs, look at what they've just done to the cattle industry. They can't even export to Australian owned and controlled meat works that are based over seas and fully meet Australian standards. Anyway Indonesia etc will be on the phone o Brazil/Argentina and buy their cows never to return.}