Well a few months ago I turned down a full time GA job, paying 22,000 PA, based on minimum wage, and out of that had to come the expense for the check outs and type rating.
Thanks to me making this selfless decision I'm not sure I am ever going to get going in my career as a Pilot.
This posting is not in sarcasm, it is fact.
While the notion of banding together to achieve a result we all want is well needed, we are making the point at the wrong end.
It needs to be at the level of the AIA who are the Industry puppets, that talk to Government (ever wonder where the speil on pilot shortages come from, its the AIA).