Whats a disgruntled Chinese airline pilot supposed to do?
At Shanghai Scrap, Adam Minter explains why the China Eastern pilots are upset: Now, I’m not making excuses for what the pilots did, but let’s take a look at the situation from their point of view: current ownership is demanding a 99-year unbreakable contract at the same time that their prospective new owner has taken steps to slash already below-market wages; they don’t have a union, and trying to form one will likely land them in the gulag; and even if you could figure out who to sue, it’s unlikely that any Chinese court is going to be interested in groundbreaking class-action lawsuits on behalf of a group of plaintiffs with a grudge against several large state-owned enterprises.
