Firstly, a hell of a lot more B-scalers than A-minus scalers left the association over the past 5 years (B-Scalers include C to Z scales for this).
Secondly, if you help everybody by helping yourself whats the problem. Not joining, or remaining in, the AOA is spiteing both yourself and everyone else.
Age 60. Yes, It will probably get negotiated for the short term and then it will be superceded by Age Discrimination Legislation that will probably end up with a 65 retirement age. Lets spite ourselves and not get anything out of it in the meanwhile!!
Tifters, please tell me how you get a 1.5% payrise with subs at 1.25% and a 25% discount if you've been in 8 years.
Its down to individuals what you do, but anyone who thinks that we will do better by just accepting what CX throw at us is just being naive. Even with the reduced numbers in the AOA at present, improvements in various areas, admittedly minor, are happening. To improve bigger items we need a bigger union. Its not rocket science.
