Goldenbawls, even with your high taxes/cost of living, the Norwegian contract (full time) as it was described to me a couple of years back was very OK
maybe it changed for the worse in the intervening time ?
As to me , or any contractor ,being the problem, how do you work that out ? if the pilots, or the Union(s) had the strength to oppose it (I know Ryanair have never managed, but Hey, you guys are unionised right? ) it would never have happened, & the door would not have been opened to these divide & conquer tactics that Earlybird refers to.
Given the companies social payments, I would imagine your full-time contract is "expensive" for the company, if not as lucrative to you as it should be given the companies total spend. Of course it is the avoidance of these costs that have formed the excuse to introduce temporary contractors into the equation, but, as I said, whose fault is it, that they have been able to do this ?