Well, obviously, you're not going to actually read what I am saying, so I'll give up. I never once said you should not try to get the best QOL and pay for your efforts. My point is that your current system and the current market is stacked against you doing anything but taking it in the shorts. You've got pilots that are willing to take poverty wages to do their dream job of flying a large shiny airplane. They would probably pay the company for the honor if they let them.
You keep saying that you're glad I'm not there as if I was one of those guys. In fact, I will not come there because those guys are already there. That was my point. You've got a whole generation of young pilots that will do anything to fly and are just happy to have a job. I don't know your personal track there, and I hope you are not like many of these guys, but your young civilian-route pilots are basically hypocrites. They were willing to work for less than minimum wage to build hours to do whatever they could do to get on with a major/legacy airline. They wh0red themselves out because they wanted to get there. They drove down pilot wages because they thought if they could just get to that big airline, they would be set. Then, the payscales dropped, but they were still more than happy to take the job. THEY SET THE MARKET PRICE FOR BEING A PILOT. Then, they get into the job, and they look at the wages, and they say, "We need to stop getting screwed by management." No, you screwed yourselves. Management just paid what the going price is for a pilot.
Your union can do whatever you want it to do, but they are not going to change the value of being a pilot artificially because those young 'wh0re' pilots already set the price.
Like I said, I wanted to be an airline pilot as much as any of you. I just cannot afford the pay cut.