GoForIt:
One thing to remember about contracting agencies. You are the contractor not the agency. They are nothing more than facilitators. They forward your application to the airline. They wire your pay where you ask them to and that is about it. They cannot and will not for the most part get involved in contract disputes because they will be cut off by the airline. Then, the pilots they have on contract will not be renewed. They will eventually be starved out. An airline that is very good at this is Korean Air Lines. On a regular basis KAL changes the terms of the contract at their whim. The agencies do nothing.