FLSV welcome to PPRuNE
There is always going to be those who think that we are paid too much and that we don’t deserve more, even among ourselves. They think that airlines will stop complaining about ATC-costs if we don’t get pay rise. They will never stop complaining! NEVER!
Very sage words in your maiden speech. We MUST all rember this. It is not holding the travelling public to ransom, it is having respect for difficult tasks, which not everyone can do and not everyone wants to do. Tasks which must be done right every time - even when the equipment provided to us does not work (AGAIN!). I sometimes think that our problem is that we make the impossible look easy and observers go away believing that it actually is.