I used to get paid £10 an hour airborne. UK, 1999/2000.
Flying instruction hasn't moved on much sadly.
You pay £100k to bypass all those rungs and move straight to large PLc AirBoeing - you end up on crap wages and rubbish terms.
Jumping the bottom 5 rungs of the ladder just drags rung 5 down to the rung 1 in pay. You are all the authors of your own misery. I really wish it were not so. Not least because you are fine people and that your cheapness increases the contrast to my expensiveness.
I find myself paying >£800 a year to BALPA whilst half you lot don't bother paying the £10 a month special deal. I exhort BALPA to find ways of helping you from the pathetic position you have put yourselves in regarding employment. I vote on pay deals which forfeit further pay rises in order to fund getting you onto a proper contract so as to curb your undercutting.
I concur that this was either the best deal available or that the deal isn't as good as promised. However. You. Turned up. Paid >£80k. Attended for a year. Completed. And now work under terms that you, by those actions, largely created.
Your plight is alarming, wrong, detrimental and completely your own fault.
WWW