The articel is very spot on and pretty much sums up the situation of aviation in Europe.
However, to headline it with the deliberate crash of the Germanwings plane is not just ridiculous, but plain wrong. With this it destroys the credibility of its message.
The copilot concerned had one of the best careers possible in Europe's aviation nowadays: he had his training financed by Lufthansa, he had a loss of licence insurance paid by his employer, he was well paid on a monthly fix salary, and he was accumulating Lufthansa mainline seniority while flying for Germanwings.
Now that being said, back to the articles message: what is clear: we need a new unionism in whole Europe. Companies have become transnational, so should unions. We also need more realistic and adapted unions, who let their leftish idealism behind, because that makes them unacceptable for a lot of employed people, who actually still believe in capitalism and free markets.
France is a very good example: unions which are way too strong on the political level, and therefore distort democrazy as a minority, while at the same time being too weak on a corporate level to do their job, to enforce a fair share of the profits for the employees.