Hey, Kansas Boy (Tornado Ali)
Before you wind your self up into a heart attack.
I don't Know how long you have been with Cathay, But your PPrune date of 1998 does show to all of us. If you have been here since then, you may have forgotten some of our history.
The short version, Cathay will do what it wants (Within some of the laws). (It fired 49 pilots on one day, has put new contracts in mail boxes with sign or your fired letters, Etc, Etc, Etc and some more Etc).
May I suggest the next course of action for you is to march up the DFO's office and pound your fist on his desk and inform him how you will no longer accept this injustice.
please let us how that goes.