Led Zepp, can you now understand why mainline pilots, especially the junior ones are so aggrieved? They have been wanting this (the ability to go to j*) from day one, the opportunity to make a choice. But they have been blocked. The hostility is towards those that deliberately stymie career progression, management and a small minority of qf & j* pilots.
Many who simply wanted a window seat, now face the possibility of retrenchment, all the while the "Qantas Group" continues to employ pilots.
qf mainline has a mini version of the GOAL, - the intergration agreement, ensuring those on an aircraft at the time of integration where not disadvantaged by another, more senior pilot on another aircraft. On the whole it worked, not perfect. Every "A" pilot was given a command shot on the B737 before any more senior "Q" pilot.
My understanding is a GOAL would work in exactly the same way. It is no something to fear, quite the opposite, it provides opportunities for all sorts of career paths, with pilots trading off promotion for differing T&Cs - but by their own choice, not because of management prerogative.
But, I suspect that is what this is all about, management prerogative, & the ability to manipulate through favours & playing one group off against another. Is this the sort of workplace you want to be at?
This can be stopped, by realising your fellow pilots are not the enemy, most just want a reasonable prospect of career progression. If the world has changed, they just want to have the opportunity be a part of it, not left to rot because they have a Q seniority number.