Industrial Action?
Well, one would have to say that to date the ex-Crossair pilots have demonstrated incredible restraint and patience. How much longer can this determination and resolve continue?
Over a period of almost 18 months these ex-Crossair pilots have experienced management abuse, malice, illegality, discrimination, lying, bias, denial of freedom of association, conflict of interest and self interest etc etc. On top of this you can add sheer racism and ethnic cleansing. Finally the troops have had to put up with basic managerial incompetence and financial mismanagement of the highest order. This type of managerial performance and behaviour is what SWISS management and ex-Swissair pilots call "Worlds Best Practice".
No, SWISS, Switzerland and Aviation deserve better. Will they get it? Probably not, especially given current SWISS management's brilliant and successful efforts to be even worse than the bankrupted Swissair.
Industrial Action, as a last resort? Let us all hope and pray it will not be necessary for the ex-Crossair drivers to take this final and drastic action. As each day passes, they of course have very little to lose but everything (their jobs) to gain. These ex-Crossair pilots as a group are being thrown out of their own company because they have passed their "use-by date" to save the jobs of their unemployed ex-Swissair colleagues. The policy of their expulsion and extermination which will be facilitated by the creation of SWISS Express has been in existence since late 2001.
To the barricades....!