Well LHR Rain, unless you are an official spokesperson for a Government recognised pilot union, you should be very careful who you say 'No' to!
What this industry needs is for all heads to get together and come up with a well reasoned proposal. One or two 'hot-heads' standing on their idea of principle and their interpretaion of industrial justice, creating a stir, will only get them the sack.
You are obviously quite young, LHR Rain, and extremely naive, not to mention having no idea about the expat world, so please take kindly my suggestion that you just sit back and get on with the job you were employed for, do it to the best of your ability, accept that the path ahead may be strewn with a few bolders, like DEC, for instance, (and no different to just about anywhere else in the world), and in due course, when the time is right, you will get the opportunity to be assessed for command and if you fit the bill, in all respects, pass command training then the LHS will be yours!,