Frankly Pablo, you're part of the problem. No one, especially you considering you new union officer position, should have bid this plane without a settled pay scale and work rules. Addressing each of your justifications:

If principle was your issue, then NOT bidding the 777 was the correct response. UAL pilots stood on principle when they refused to bid the new 747-400 without a new pay scale. The planes sat for a few months and then eventually they got an appropriate pay scale.

You had a choice to NOT submit an application to standards too. Why didn't you choose that course of action?

We are so far beyond the whole mom and apple pie excuse of "love for flying." Now you're sounding like management, trying to coerce us to accept sub-par contract conditions with patriotism.

It appears to me that you placed your personal agenda above our collective union agenda. That you did so as a newly-elected union officer is mind-boggling. The Company has been balking at 777 pay scale negotiations and the only way to get them to negotiate in good faith is for us to take appropriate action which I believe is to withhold bidding the 777. As a union officer you should be showing leadership by leading the effort, not working against us.