Skipping Classes
" discuss openly our terms and conditions."
Open discussion!!!
Reality is that we are own worst enemy. In normal circumstances, if you can improve your situation, and get into a position of influence, it would seem reasonable that such discussion could and should take place.
Yes we sign a contract, however we do not sign our contract in blood! But many of these companies prefer to have one-way communication, this is not unique for Eastern Europe, as we can see with FR, however there is a culture of very authorian company culture in East / Central Europe, compared to Western Europe.
Try to raise your voice to want improved conditions, and you will be stabbed in the back by your colleagues , this can be done by opposing improvement of TC suggestions / ideas or / and refraining from taking a stand, not giving support when others stand up and put themselves in the spot-light!
Yet shortly after they will still go around moaning and complaining about how bad their TC's are!
These companies work with a big whip from the top, they believe they can control your life, your roster, your holidays, your base, your commuting possibilities, your upgrade chances! All these factors are controlled by power hungry management from the top, who are not afraid to "punish you" if you have been a "bad boy / girl" Without some kind of union that can protect your interests you are left to accept whatever they throw at you, legal or illegal!
As the piece below from another PPRUNE thread illustrates, the illusion of better jobs after some experience, is slowly fading. If companies like Wizz do not improve their TC's, other companies will follow them to become equally competitive, other companies will also lower their TC's
From another thread regarding FR / NAS - similar applies to Wizz.
"low pay, lousy roster, nasty management, etc., etc. (And it was & still is.) They were all going to build their time & then leave & here I would ask the question, "where are you going to go to?" All of the airlines have continually lowered their Ts & Cs & there are now no places left that offer anything like the conditions that we all took for granted back in the eighties & nineties. Now, if those same people: the Ryanair, Jet2, NAS pilots told the likes of O'Leary, Meeson, Kjos, et al, to shove it & walked out, within a day all of our professional lives would improve. "