Wiggy- there really is no amount of "eye opening" that will lead a reasonable person to any great epiphany about this .
To quote Ted Reed "As with many long-lasting legal battles, this one continues because both sides are right. West pilots say binding arbitration is binding arbitration. Few of us would want to live in a world where that is not true. East pilots argue that binding arbitration occurred under the jurisdiction of the Air Line Pilots Association, which is basically a private club, and US Airways pilots voted to leave the club.The underlying issue is that the Nicolau ruling is unfair to nearly 1,000 east pilots. " (now...wait for it... a dozed pilots will be bashing Ted Reed and or his opinion)
This will either be played out in the courts or solved through McCaskill-Bond legislation- which sadly was not in place at the time of the NIC.
The take away is not who was right, who was wrong. The take away is winners - management and losers- pilots. The one thing that we can all agree on is that this should never happen again. We should prepare for a globalized future- one in which the airline industry becomes more liberalized. So much rancor between fellow U.S. pilots- now imagine this on a global scale.