Tryhard1, I don't think AH was being especially harsh. If there is one thing that is worth putting your job on the line for, it is job security. That is what the Qantas pilots are starting to realise, and the J* Oz guys should be getting that drift too.
Air NZ has a robust "scope" clause, that means Air NZ aircraft are flown by Air NZ pilots, any subsidiary jet operations are included, and give rights to Air NZ pilots to fly them. This is why Freedom ended up being irrelevent, and it's pilots got a pretty good deal to take up their "reserved" seniority number and integrate into the Air NZ pilot group.
That clause was not won easily, and took a bit more that "requesting" and "not condoning". If you want to preserve your jobs, you will need to fight for them.....the company and its accountants see you as nothing but "resource" and will screw you over as soon as look at you.
Pilots need to start thinking globally....airlines certainly are, and when the first J*NZ pilots begin flying in OZ (in the VH reg aircraft, on their Oz licences), the Australian J* pilots will be facing a worse problem than the QF pilots have now....
You guys need to wake up, your company are already undercutting you!