Studi, nice try but I'm afraid you are trying to apply long term German Union socialist principles to short term, fat cat, British mentality. When the response is "our management didn't ask for a united work force so we didn't give them one" I think you might have to admit defeat. By the way, it is obvious to me why you and all other pilots should be interested.
Come back in a decade and you'll be able to say "I told you so" maybe with a certain sense of what we call " schadenfreude". Do you have a word for that in German?