and yet the same person continually laments the inability of a pilot group to bond effectively while simultaneously defending a year of Wal-Mart night shelf stocker wages for ~400/2900 (roughly 18%) of the pilot group because “I went through it when I was a newbie.”

Really, you don’t have to convince me, it’s obvious you don’t give a $hit about the salary of anyone junior to you. It’s just amazing to me you can’t connect the dots. The union has a legal and moral obligation to bargain effectively for these people and even if they didn’t, you aren’t going to establish pilot group cohesiveness by divisive policies. Forcing newbies to run through the gauntlet of low training and first year pay does not build group unity. It’s just abusive.

And I can keep this up just as long as you can.