AJ is feeling the pressure!
J* has complained recently to mainline QF that QF had pinched pilots that J* was in the process of recruiting. CM's response was to the effect, "Mainline needs them and we'll take every one we can get", ie get stuffed.
The pilot shortage has moved up the totem pole from REX to J* & DJ with mailine QF also having problems. If J* pilots don't stand their ground now and get better remuneration then you deserve the contempt of their peers - you made a mistake a few years ago, now is the time to correct it. Dixon has been using J* staff as pawns to undermine mainline T's & C's but this pilot shortage is a weapon that can be used to turn it around and get remuneration appropriate to the high cost of acquiring pilot skills. Once J* pilot T's & C's have been raised, then the pilot group can truly unite in the industrial sense.