No wonder that Jetstar pilots negotiated such crap in the first instance. Any Jetstar pilot who now refuses to join AIPA should probably have a good long think about where they stand. I'm certain that will be a controversial statement, and about time I dive for the bunker!
You shouldn't have to dive for the bunker, though PPrune is a somewhat notorious enclave for Type A personality cyber-bullies. You are quite correct that there's not much point in having representative bodies split all over the place for the one profession. Other professional organisations, representative bodies, unions, associations, and so on would be shaking their heads in disbelief.
Then there is that whole thing with certain members on the forum who are so badly hung-up on past events that it just obviously burns them to the core. And while they're forever looking at (and commenting about) the past, it is fixing the foreseeable
future problems and issues which is what matters, and which is what this thread is about, and is what Joe Eakins comments were about, and is what his sacking is ultimately about.