I participated in a Union Focus group today and we covered all the items and more you referenced aboveand a lot more. I highly you sign up for one. It was about two hours long and was very informative and great to hear perspectives from fellow pilots on TA 1 and where we should go for TA2.
So I do not want to write a book to explain everything to you. Go to the source and quit believing all the bad information from the angry few.