Horatio - you make some very good points and as an employee opened my eyes as to what it must be like for my employer.
Band a lot - I totally understand your apparent hatred of pilots who work for less then the award. However, you have to understand that most of these guys don't really have a choice, behind them there are a 100 other desperate pilots keen to work for even less, and employers love to remind them of that.
What I want to know is why arnt these employers getting audited by the appropriate authorities? Does that happen?
Maybe Horatio can answer that question.
If only we as pilots could stand together, we wouldn't have this problem, I have seen situations where this has happened and the employer was left with no choice but to pay up.
The problem with GA is it's unsustainable for the majority of pilots, you just can't live the kind of life that lives up to most pilots ambitions. I would say the ratio of average/bad to good operators who treat their pilots with respect and pride are heavily biased toward the former.