Well before a million people jump on here and start talking about unions vs non unions. Just consider this...You work for a company that has consistantley lost money and all the employee groups are taking massive concessions (Yes, some of this is required to assure the viability of the company). The Government intervenes and imposes arbitration and the company wins 5 out of 5 arbitrations. Yet the management of this airline votes themselves double digit increases and bonuses and incresed benefits. Former CEO's are walking away with millions and millions. union or non union, this is not a good enviroment at any company. A First Officer at Air Canada would now be required to take a 43.5% pay CUT to UPGRADE to CAPTAIN and fly the Low Cost equivalent.....The union leaders summed it up as saying. "They may have won the arbitration but they lost us in the process". Whereas before , pilots would usually go the extra mile for the company and help them out, I think it is fair to say that is unlikely to happen in the future. 6 out of my last 10 flights required a concession from the crew to operate the flight to remain legal contractually prior to this ruling. I would be thinking twice about that now. I actually feel sorry for our passengers more than anything as all 6 of those flights would have been cancelled or at least delayed 12 hours....It is pretty sad but indicative of the situation here.