Never met Geoff...never heard his voice...never was a union "heavy"., don't want to fly a 330 or even worse, a 380. I have done my flying and have no regrets, except for those who will take years and years to command because of short-sightedness. But I did enjoy the conditions hard fought for by a union (singular) before the Qantas pilots set upon their own destruction by leaving and watched, smiling in 1989 while the industry tore itself apart.
So you have beaten me...I just give up trying to explain about the real world. I recommend you stay away from it because it might bite. In return for me ceasing to annoy you with posts about the thread topic...BONDS, or indeed any other....could you last few AIPA spokespersons/posters who take all this so personally and are so filled with venom...please PM me regularly with your monthly schedule so that on those flights I might take in my retirement, I can avoid cockpits where passion and blinkers get in the way of real judgement.
Good luck with your careers and, in the decades to come, your commands.