You seem to have taken umbrage with my use of "Corner case"....my point is that there are some mainstream items that act as a tide that lifts all boats, and "specialized items", that seem to float some boats more than others.....Are there pilots that can make a living just bidding LCA's and then getting bumped and flying extra to make a pile of cash....absolutely, but the vast majority of our pilot group does not.

A mainstream item that floats all boats would be ....pay rates.....and a "corner case" might be SMU.....this runs the risk of being an example of a strawman argument....but if you got huge payrates, fix to retirement that more or less benefitted all, would it be worth it to "concede" (other's words not mine) the SMU situation?

This is the conundrum all our block reps had to wrestle with. In TonyC's case, (I voted for him) and he stated in his letter that were many things that both he and the members of his block would want and benefit from. As a rep, he put the interest of the entire pilot group ahead of his block.... Perhaps the other reps did the same, though they came to a different conclusion.....

I won't presume to usurp Tony's individual vote on the TA as a member during ratification....but voting "NO" to send it to ratification is completely different from a yes or no vote during ratification. I could see how (let's say 2 or three others also voted "no" to send it out to the membership) but once they were outvoted, it would not be irrational to then vote "yes".....

My initial feeling is that I would like to think if I were an Rep, I would have voted "NO" to send it to ratification.....(Easy to say as a MEC outsider....I might have heard information during the discussion with the NC that might have influenced me to vote "YES" as did the other 12 reps).....but once it was out for ratification, the best option might be to vote "Yes", and continue the fight in 2028....Note I am saying the "Best" option and not the "desireable or 'Just option in a perfect word'"