Maybe we should all wake up. There will always besomeone due to circumstances that will need to sign on the line to get home but hey, you can't go out on strike for a company you don't work for.
The airlines have been playing dirty for years. Screwing pilots to the floor, unreasonable bonds and charges for ratings etc etc. They're almost an employer monopoly and they know it.
Grounding the planes is the only card pilots have to play that hurts airline management and we should have been playing it more often otherwise we will not be high in the list of financial priorities.

Spot on D&F.

Amazing how the EU (or should I say EUSSR?) is basically used as the main tool in order to screw the ordinary workers more and more and more.

No wonder 'The Establishment' (i.e. politicians, CEO's, mainstream media) is so scared of a possible BREXIT, because that would level the playing field for the employees again.... :rolleyes:

Let's see how long it will take for the mods to close down this topic or censor certain opinions that are critical of the corporate elite.

This is standard modus operandi (and has been for some time ) for every loco you can think of in Europe.

Are the Unions REALLY so naive that they don't see this cr@p coming ? or should we be worried about some funny handshakes / selective blindness . . . certainly used to be the case 25 years ago in the UK's "2nd airline", & I don't trust any "cog in the wheel", which a Union undoubtedly is.

If the management has loused on their promise, all strength to the guys, if they signed up & went back ahead of their countrymen in other bases knowing the rubbish on offer ? well, they are reaping what they sowed, world of difference between these two possibilities.

"He steals from the poor and gives to the rich..."
 

The unions are powerless, due to the EU. Unions have been sidetracked due to their national restrictions, yet national restrictions don't count for companies and can fly in strike breakers from other bases.

What have we seen since the EU came along?

More jobs? Yes
Better quality jobs? Definitely not

Forced to form your own Ltd? Low or not pension payments? Pay for training? Pay to fly?

Let's face it, the cake is being divided again and again until there is almost nothing left. The socialist dream of redistributing wealth, all under the guise of "never war again in Europe." The only cakes that do not get smaller of course, but instead get bigger and bigger, are the bonus cakes that are for management and shareholders.

Monty Python's Dennis Moore explains:

"The steals from the poor and give to the rich, stupid b..."