Jason Depew is a smart pilot over at Delta, I’ve been following his journey for years. He has a book out and is active on LinkedIn but his website has a few great nuggets we should all be knowledgeable about.

This article outlines how important qol improvements are to both gaining actual quality AND increasing our pay without rates but soft time additions.

https://pilotmathtreasurebath.com/2023/01/30/pay-quality-of-life-why-pick-just-one/amp/

Highly recommend looking it over, and passing it along to LEC/MEC reps. I particularly like the last section on ALPA, and how there is an undercurrent at the union to NOT improve rates too much because that would blow up their pattern bargaining process. Instead, soft pay and qol are the ways to leap frog pay into much higher levels.