Its got to be time for you guys to take a quantum leap and start looking after yourselves AS A GROUP.
Whether you think your union in mired in 60's rhetoric (don't think so - AIPA's never stood up for themselves, hence the CEO's belittling term 'softc*cks') or intelligent strategists (don't think so either given the J* blunder) whatever you're doing, it clearly aint working.
GD and his ilk are out to get you (and any other soft targets that will improve their CV's and better their chances of positions on other boards etc), that should be very evident by now.
For those few that gullibly follow their routine of "we've all got to knuckle down and make sacrifices in these challenging times" - get wise. They are laughing at your naivety and you're falling for it hook, line and sinker. Do you not see the hypocrisy in the fact that they are getting salary increases and bonuses beyond all historical precedent?
Don't like pshyco-babble but you lot need a paradigm shift. AIPA and the AFAP need to get back together, eat humble pie and then mend fences with the J* Pilot Group. You then need to invent some form of unique industrial action AS A COHESIVE GROUP that bites yet still complies with the new industrial crules.
Otherwise what choice do you have? Forever watching your conditions of service decline, yet the only way you retalliate is to bitch at each other on PPRune. Not very useful that technique. Don't work in Oz at present but only writing because I hate seeing my profession reduced to this level.
Mangling another awful cliche but 'United you may stand, divided you are already falling'. Time for a radical change in your handling of this issue folks.