No Buzzbox you're wrong ...
The worst legacy of the recruitment ban, is threads like this one ... neatly proving to all and sundry that the CX pilot body is now deeply, bitterly divided, and the level of discussion amongst presumably intelligent adults on both sides of the ban has been reduced to making immature comments about who's got the biggest testes. Gee that sort of talk is going to go a looong way towards solving the problems CX pilots are facing right now, and for the next generation.
Management must be just loving it they've got the AOA and non-union pilots exactly where they want them. Sort of like two dogs fighting in a pit ... so busy with your fangs buried in each other's throats, that you totally don't realize that if you could just raise your eyes out of your pit and focus on your masters, you could still, even now, jump out and bite the crooks that are running the show.
Fat chance of that happening while you guys are fighting like cats in a sack over who did what. It's OVER. Why don't you try something radical and start talking to each other, working together, all of you, think about what the next move is going to be, do something proactive rather than reactive for a change? Or would you rather all just sit there bickering like schoolkids for another few months and wait for management to find another excuse to shove the broomstick in another couple of notches?
It may be hard to swallow but you AOA guys need the new joiners on your side now, and believe it or not you new joiners could do worse than actually starting to talk to the union guys and trying to do something constructive to secure your futures. There once was a tradition of CX pilots being the best in the world and proud of it, showing everyone else how it was done. It could still be done again. Even now.