Since ALPA-S is calling for job cuts instead of taking a pay reduction, they must be prepared for the axe to slash them on the backswing.
Their negotiating posture shows how selfish they are - instead of working with the company (regardless of / in spite of past emotional baggage - which in turn will show them as magnamimous if they co-operate) they want to inflict pain on others first.
They have once again failed to realise (after years of experience of bad press) that the full might of the media will be roped in to bash them.
This is very poor situational awareness.
It is a fact that they have refused to co-operate, regardless of the fact that other unions within SIA also have not taken pay-cuts yet.
It's no use lamenting "why single us out" - because you guys have made yourselves a target, you dummies.
It's just like a schoolboy being caught for some offence and then pleading "but there were others too, sir".
The fact remains that they have very publicly rejected SIA's proposals and in turn demanded that an entire group (with many earning less than locals) must be sacked first. This only makes them out to be selfish and uncooperative.
They should have come up with proposals that would have brought them closer to resolving this problem rather than drive a wedge into the scheme of things.
The facts remain:
Not all SIA (Mauritius) pilots earn more than the locals.
The President of ALPA-S himself earns more than a good number of SIA (Mauritius) pilots.
There is thus no merit or logic in demanding that the whole lot of SIA (Mauritius) pilots be sacked first before the locals will take a pay cut.