And here's where I get in trouble with the in crowd.

I think the only way we achieve the gains that most people expect IS to change the way SPA ALPA does the pilots business. The current philosophy gave us C2003 which was negotiated in six weeks so as to give Jacob Schorr the concessions he demanded inexchange for "growth". We gave up conflict bidding and our calender day guarantee in that contract. The same team rode the opposite strategy to a drawn out negotiation and a strike in 2010 to give away time and a half OT. One of the supposed big gains in C2010 was "an expedited arbitration process". Since that "gain", SPA ALPA has obviously chosen the arbitration process as our SOP. C2010 also gave us the "red/green" fiasco, as far as we know "red/green" is still in arbitration. So we gave up something to get an expedited arbitration process (don't doubt that we gave up something, DP is famous for stating "what are you going to give up to get xxxx", so he obviously accepts that something must be given to get and they totally advertised "expedited arbitrations" as a "get") so we got the arbitration process and we end up in an arbitration quagmire over "red/green" and no telling what else. Go figure!

Yes, change just might be in order.

And, as an aside, almost none of the good stuff in our contract came from C2003 or C2010.
Five/four off between blocks of work? Pre dates the union drive.
No JA? Before my time, but I'm pretty sure it dates from C1999.
Three hour reserve report? LOA from 2006.
Commute clause? LOA from 2007.
You think red/green was a win? It actually gave up a (weak) staffing formula to get it and it's still unresolved.

I'm sure guys like Ramrod can think of more.

Go Bears!