I agree with Ron, Pd, and Herk. We have a management trial balloon floating before us, and it's an unattractive one at that. Maybe RA said something to a LCA about FO's "sitting home", maybe he didn't. So what? If he starts musing about perdiem, or credit time, or having a seniority-based system, do we try to figure out how to cough those things up?

The only motivations I've identified so far in arguing for modifications to the OE/OE removal system are greed, jealousy, Stockholm Syndrome, or ignorance:

1) I want something else (like a paid APD), so screw "those guys",
2) "Those guys" get a good deal, so screw them,
3) Well, I guess that if you really want to screw those guys, I should help?
4) Oops! I didn't realize that "those guys" actually means me!

Let's focus on things that improve our common lot.