doing some mental maths, if/when they are forced to pay 'backpay'', KA will likely close completely, or cut staff levels substantially.
i think what they've been doing stinks, but what's better?
ex-staff getting what you should have been paid, (BTW more than you'd agreed to work for), thus putting others out of a job. (those where you were 12+ months ago)
Or this might be the example that makes another employer think twice before setting things up the wrong way and underpaying its employees from the beginning. Tough one.
As a side note, the KA pilots on GTE were making some pretty good money compared to the full time guys not that long ago, so if they are forced to compare what they should have earned through at GA award payments vs. what they took home then the pay out might not be as big as imagined. I take it that things have changed in the last 12 months or so.
Regardless, to see another sham contracting scheme or under GA award "agreement" go to the wall is a good thing in my book.