Mil pilot, although you will find a serious ammount of negativity from CX chaps on this often tiresome, odious and backbiting forum, fortunately they DONT represent those from the majority of pilots at CX in general, most of whom wont try and persecute you for the personal and career choices you might make during your time in CX.
Details of the pay talks whilst for the moment should quite rightly remain out of the public domain, will soon be available for all on PPRUNe to pick at. All I will say is when it happens, and you are making your decision to join or not, do not take some of the militant rantings you will read here as anything more than a small bunch of malcontents venting their spleen the only way they know how...anonymously!