Just shows how uninformed you really are!
I won't need to negotiate anything. I will never ever sign a new CoS and I will ultimately be better off than your negotiated terms.
Negotiations imply reaching an agreement that is fair, balanced, and beneficial to both parties. Since when has there an agreement been reached between the company and the AOA that's been beneficial to its members. The company has always used the AOA to get what it wants, under the pretence of "negotiations", maybe not after the first round, but certainly by the second round. If not for the AOA how else would you be able to sell sub-standard agreements to the pilot body. What's even more pathetic is how the members then justify the existence of the AOA and assume there is no way we could have done better without the help of the AOA.
the AOA has, and has had, its problems but for most of us it's the only game in town.
Yeah tell that to the brave few who started the CPU and won a landmark lawsuit in Hong Kong.
Close down this useless association and open another one with paid professionals, then you might interest many in re-joining.
If you deny non-AOA members the jumpseat and have the balls to say no to their face and ultimately face a D&G, then you have my respect, otherwise you are the epitome of what is wrong with many of the AOA members...lets be militant as long as it doesn't jeopardize my personal needs or employment.