I thought the original point of this thread was to provoke a discussion about an organisation, that is apparently sympathetic to the challenges that we at EK may face as employees and not to debate the ethics of the growth of the ME3?
It would seem to me that the challenges that EK pilots face are completely, totally connected to the ethics of the growth of the ME3. In fact I would say there is a perfectly straight line that could be drawn to connect the two.
And I think that pilots at the legacy carriers are recognizing that if they don't combat those ethics, their own rosters and jobs will eventually come to more closely resemble those of the ME3.
Hence I don't question the motives of the likes of a German pilot union taking an active interest in the welfare of EK pilots.