I agree with you 100% Zapata.
Pay commensurate with expirience and expertise.
The long term outlook for this career with the present work agreements is poor at best.
Management can shut down and airline or furlough 12,000 hour pilots and if these pilots want to continue to be airline pilots they must start all over again elsewhere for about 30K per year pulling gear for some jerk who may be seriously less qualified and skilled.
What a joke.

This is largely ALPA's fault.
Plumbers,electricians and longshoremen have a much better deal and far better unions.
They have union medical insurance,union retirement and most important can move their skills from company to company at like pay rates in the same position.