It occurred to be that a couple of contracts ago the extremely loud commentariat was on the ALPA forums (until ALPA closed them down).

Then APC was all the rage (except for the rage heads on chit-chat). Ended up with an initial contract voted down, lots of LEC/MEC recalls and a better deal.

This cycle my gut sense is that it will be thrashed out on the FB forums and the APC dinosaurs will be left scratching their heads.

Most of the "niche" exploitable contract loopholes were out of sight until about 18 months ago when they really blew up. Never really saw the strategies here on APC, but I'm told there are in depth discussions on other platform forums.

IDK. I hope that the ALPA negotiation committee understands that the tiny group with the bullhorn (which wields outsized power for their numbers) understands this.