The easiest way to put all questions aside on how the senior vs junior vs old vs young feel on the retroactivity issue is to put it to a democratic vote. If you disagree with me, what are you afraid of?....coming out in the minority and not getting your way? If the majority comes out in favor of supporting retroactivity...I'll be a loyal member and this issue will quickly become a thing of the past. It's the blatant disregard for what could be an overwhelming majority opinion that I find most distasteful and causes me to lose faith that OUR Union speaks for the pilot group as a whole.
I've been a junior guy fed to the wolves as fodder during contract negotiations in a previous airline life.....coincidentally also a closed shop...so please spare me the junior varsity and whippersnapper diatribe as you rebut my opinion.