Gentlemen,
I've read most of the hot replies to the CX related threads and it stikes me that we're playing into managements' hand. If there is one thing we should not be doing it's slagging each other. To blame 'B scalers' for accepting the first B scale contracts, and new joiners for signing the present ones, or Malasian pilots for wanting to accept the latest hairbrained scheme is not the way to go.
Its fairly obvious that people will accept jobs paying better than their present ones, its up to us and the AOA to make sure that those jobs are not offered. It's us who must put our collective foot down and say to management "Hire them under those conditions and the rest of us won't fly". The whole purpose of the B scale and ASL and this latest cunning stunt is to divide and rule - don't let it happen.
Let's also stop passing the buck around as to who's responsibility it is to do something about our problems. An S/O cannot refuse to fly in a crew with two S/O's, he has no contractual ground to do so. Only the captain of a flight can make that decision, but the rest of the crew can and should support him and voice their concerns.
It's fairly obvious that a captain has the most influence to make the company see the error of it's ways, however the senior 'A scalers' also have the most to lose and therefore need the support of the rest of us. Forget for a moment who's on which contract and lets all fight together to try and get us all back on the same one. The "A" one.