We will be giving away freebies to management during negotiations, if we allow ourselves to depend on soft rules to improve our QOL or pay.
Only hard rules count: Min guarantee, pay, min days off.

Soft rules, which company has control over:
NO reserve call out list.
"Option" to assign reserves by credit or days of availability? (according to Sched. supervisor)
Open time, reserve/relief staffing, pairings.
Open time, and it's assignment, are not transparent yet.
CS does assign trips to pilots who "call in" or to reserves, before posting on Flica. We are all aware of the side deals.

Planning "optimizes" the schedules to avoid the 22 hrs layover credit.
Isn't there less soft time and more 21:50 hr layovers?

If 150% is negotiated back without a min. open time formula, it means nothing.

Currently about 20% of our pilots are on first year pay.
Reserve is cheap, compared to 150% for a 2nd or 3rd year pay FO.
That will change, and so will open time.

Regardless of individual priorities, the focus of negotiations should be on hard rules that give no, or minimum, leeway for manipulation.

I am very happy here and will work on continuing to be.