There's no guarantee you'll get hired at NJA. Take the bird in hand at the corporate job.
If you don't buy that logic try this--What's the deal with the corporate outfit? Will you get typed and will you get any pic time? If yes, take it and always know the possibility exists that you may have to move on.
There is no security in this business. What if you go to NJA and they strike?
One thing you absolutely should not do is to make a career decision based on someone telling you their company sucks. Why should you sacrifice your seniority number because someone on a message board said not to come here because it wouldn't help him?
BrnJetFuel--I understand your frustration. Let him know what the deal is at NJA but to tell him it wouldn't help YOUR situation will probably only piss him off. The contract WILL eventually be resolved. Why cost some poor schmuck a bunch of numbers because you're pissed off and frustrated? If he doesn't take a job at NJ there' plenty more coming through the door that you can't dissuade.
Again, it's all a crapshoot.TC