This has to be one of the most uniformed and misguided post I've seen in a while!

Have you sat down with a line check airman and asked them how awesome it is to have very few of their line requests honored, or how awesome it is to be locked out of IOT and DOT, and if it's so super amazing, why on average 2-3 LCA positions go unfilled each month because it's such a great deal?

More than dividing yourself from a group of our fellow pilots, you should be more concerned with the fact that JS wakes up in the morning and tries to find new ways to wipe himself with Section 9 of your CBA. Furthermore, try to think what JS is likely looking to do to Section 9 in negotiations. Do you want 30 guys returned to the line each month that used to do NH, CUG, and recurrent training so that you can go do your next line check or PC with a non-line pilot instructor/check airman? Perhaps your chief pilot, because that may just happen. Ask any NH how many non-list instructors they had during initial training, it's already happening. JS is a training guy, that's what he knows, do you think it's coincidence Section 9 is taking as long as it is? You've got to look at the bigger picture here.

And no, I'm not one of those guys, just one who's wise enough to get myself educated on the issue, but I trust you threw your name in the super amazing check airman hat when the company asked for more last fall.