so what you are agreeing is that the company has done stuff which is ethically wrong, and in contradiction to the EBA, which ends up costing some pilots much $$$$ they can ill afford, but disagree that the pilots should not use the same rules to save themselves $$$ when they can?
Basically the company found a loophole in the EBA to save a few bucks... exploited it to THEIR advantage whilst disadcantaging the poor pilot.
Regards regional airlines trying to get pilots to pay up front for their training.... just look at what happened at QFLink when they tried that!