"What you guys don't realise is that by resigning and looking from the outside of the fish bowl in, you screwed a lot of G/A pilots too. Many of you came back to G/A to fly Navajos and other light aircraft to prop up the system you had just resigned yourself from. "
I was in GA and on the executive committee of the Feds then and supported the DISPUTE pilots then and do now. What they/we were fighting for was a principle and one that very few pilots that were in GA then and probably in the airlines now demonstrate they don't have the balls to stand by themselves. I for one saw 7 of my pilots taken up by the airlines, they weren't bitching about the lack of opportunities created by the dispute.
Yes it is history, but as has been said if you don't learn from it you are bound to repeat it.