Why? You plan to get to work on time, your commute blocks in 30 minutes late waiting for a gate and now you have to go to the crew room and check in 5 minutes late and burn one of your 3 Commute Clause excusals.

OR, like the big boys we are, we could (and do under our current CBA) simply go straight to our gate and operate the flight on time, without burning a Commute Clause event because you had to needlessly go to a Crew Room computer (In the case of our ORD crew room, .9 miles from our primary gates).

This IS a concession and we should be compensated for it. Your little straw man argument still ignores the significant change in quality of life under our current CBA. We don't have a problem with pilots showing up for work...if we were anything like our FA group then you would have a point. Why are we changing status quo to solve a problem that doesn't exist? We are challenging the very premise that it is a "simple little thing." It is not, and somehow the company managed to operate without it. Frankly they shouldn't be doing it at other airlines either, it's absurd. I've seen grown men with silver hair working for legacy carriers, racing through the terminal like a teenager just to get to some silly check-in, while running past the gate they will eventually leave from. You either get the flight out on time or you don't. If you don't show up and never call scheduling to let them know, you get disciplined/fired. I don't know why that's such a radical concept; one of the few benefits left in this job is the ability to operate autonomously from management if you're getting the job done.