Nice to know Ralph TB is endeavouring to maintain/regain the salary he had as a scab.
NG, I am afraid that the best description with which to fit you is that you are naively foolish.
Very few people enter flying on the basis of anything other than passion for flight itself.
It has, in the professional aviator's realm, nothing to do with remuneration at a proper level for the job done by a commercial pilot.
Unfortunately, you are mixing the two, and that is exactly what the boffins who run companies want you to do.
The more bias they can levy on those like you who think the passion for flying is greater than the reward for the profession, the more chance they have of squeezing you until, one day, the pimple will burst.
The attittude of the pilots when that occurs will determine who gets most of the pus over them.