Accepting a job from an entirely different world is hardly the same as accepting a reduction in your conditions once you are in it, in effect accepting less pay than the other guys doing exactly the same job. As far as I'm concerned you can't pick and choose which COS violations are ok and which ones aren't, it's all or nothing.
Further if freighter commands were so right why are they now finished? The evidence does not support your attempts to justify the queue jumpers actions.