Guys forget striking, it will do nothing but open the door to other operators who also have idle aircraft and access to excess crew, which is the basis of the current problems after all. It can only do damage.
The only answer is for the entire pilot workforce to quit and set up as a separate entity to the companies, who to quote CHC management, see themselves as nothing more than asset management companies, not helicopter operators.
Set up as a professional partnership akin to solicitors, accountants etc where all are invested in the business and supplying the pilot needs of the asset managers. Pilots could work as much or as little as they wish with a basic fee structure and profit share, pilot development would be experience and ability based rather than down to company ratios. The aim would be to provide all an equal proportion of days work to availability given.
There would be a buy in to provide startup capital and so all are invested in the business, there would need to be a leadership structure of some sort, however individual empire builders should be avoided. The ultimate aim should be a north sea wide ops manual with an independant training department, all backed and preferred by the CAA since this would be an entity actually focussed on flight operations.
This is not suggested as an easy option, indeed many would have to be prepared to work harder and more flexibly than now, however it would take control away from the companies who don't give a toss. Of course getting all of Bristow and CHC pilots to act together like this and be grown up enough to set something up together is optimistic, but if we were really serious then this is the action we should take. (Bond guys could join in too of course but since they don't seem to be at risk as yet they might take more convincing)