And you don't get it 'downtheback',
Having lost the rights you speak of by resigning, the only option open then was for the pilots as a group to stick together, which makes the actions of the early returners all the more distasteful. You speak as though the resignations were a voluntary event, not a situation forced on the pilots through legal pressure.
You're simply ignoring facets of the dispute which don't suit your version of the 'truth'.