Rat5: Chief People Officer Eddie Wilson last week wrote to pilots cautioning that the deal on offer, could be withdrawn in the event pilots don’t fall into line. “If pilots continue to be misled by the false promises of unions, then you will delay or miss out on these big pay increases next month,” he said.
Having always enjoyed and benefited from the bargaining power, scope and legal protection of a union I find it inconceivable that any pilot group should still be marching piecemeal towards management's machine guns with promises of pay raises in exchange for compliance. Perhaps it's a default consequence of EU membership and the associated warped environment which allows divide and conquer to successfully prevail.
I've seen employee groups who flirted with and equivocated over union membership - those in maintenance and ground handling. When the going got tough, they were sent packing. As Frank Lorenzo (remember him?) once reportedly said ref strife from less than happy FAs: he was going to recu#t the airline. Wonder where he ended up?