SC,
If you want to discuss "Character" I suggest you cast your net a little more widely than the new joiners.
At the outset of the ban the AOA undertook to "Support the application" of pilots who refused to join under the ban. I have asked on this forum and by direct contact with the AOA how this undertaking would be fulfilled and now ask you the same question. The reply from the AOA has been stony silence.
If we want to discuss "Character" let's talk about a group of well paid professionals who fight their battles on the back of people less fortunate than themselves, lest it actually risk their own positions, or indeed those gullible enough to believe that this organisation will stand by it's pledges when they support it.