Pilots were informed if no choice has been made in a week, they will be fired or as quoted during the meeting made 'redundant'.
Now why would they do that? Why fire someone when you can impose unpaid leave? How can you fire someone who is not employed, but a self employed contractor? If they are not fired but made redundant that implies you are an employee and entitled to redundancy compensation. Insisting on no written memos at a management meeting is an admission of something fishy/smelly going on. Surely people have learnt to take recorders to these events.