Originally Posted by Cicada

You are really not in a difficult spot. You are in a spot where you can do the right thing, and treat your fellow pilots across all different airlines amicably. Equitably. You are embarking on a foolish and harmful road. Think twice. You might additionally subject yourself to retribution in ways you or I never foresaw.

Denying jumpseat is unbelievably repugnant. Any union which advocates this is a bad union. Only a scab should be denied the jumpseat. I would defy my union on this one. It's disgusting.
Seeing many Very new pilots to the industry doing this is unbelievable. They don't have a clue what they are embarking on. I have zero respect for ANY denier.