Good luck with the picketting. You cannot imagine how important this merger is, and that you get one pay scale for all. I am retired and working at a major university. The students who are pilot candidates are falling like flies because the job PAY and BENEFITS are no longer there. They see little hope of a future, and take other jobs behind a desk somewhere. Our attrition rate of "flight option" students is well over 50%. The future of the profession depends, I believe , on this negotiation, just as the strike did in 1985. Hang tough and get rid of the B scale for regionals, and the "pilot shortage" will disappear like last week's news.
Again, good luck, and thanks for your work.