ACMS is right that this issue will need to be addressed one way or another eventually.
What I will not accept though is that it is best addressed in the manner we have witnessed on this very first page of replies! As always emotive issues will turn into a testosterone / alcohol fuelled, dick measuring exercise in pointless back stabbing and will inevitably make us look foolish and divided in front of the management who are all too happy to watch us tear ourselves apart.
Our fight is not with each other, it is with the people who intend to do our conditions real harm by playing us off against each other. We will all have to swallow something unpalatable to find the best solution to this problem if we are to maintain any sort of unity and fight a common cause. Remaining arrogant and pig headed just because you perceive yourself to be part of the bigger airline will only serve to screw everybody in the end.