Wiley,
Well done, thats about the guts of it, sometimes lost in the bitterness and other emotional bits.
The reasons most people stayed out are in your post, we wouldn't work under those rules anymore.
Then along came "Enterprise Bargaining" and there for ALL to see was the agenda, SCREW THE PILOTS.
Those who stayed out were in many ways screwed by the circumstances, those who went back screwed themselves and eventually the whole industry not only Ancs&b.
None of us will forget, FEW will forgive, as to giving the $c&bs a call, forget that.