They can come to the pilots and ask for a deal. They can offer us something we want and gain relief if the language hurts them. This language only helps those senior enough to bid into conflicts, why not give the company back the previous transition (after all 90 something percent of us bid option 3 anyway) and take something that would help everybody. Like maybe dumping trip averaging, or gaining 150% pay for all hours flown over xx hours, or going back to last years health care rates.

If the recently upheld language was not strongly in our favor, why did the company spend so much trying to change it? They obviously would rather have something else but they don't want us to think that change has any real value. That is, they don't want us to see them sweat.

If not, then the union wasted an enormous amount of time and energy fighting to gain back language that was of no real value. You/they/we can't have it both ways. Either it was a huge win, or it wasn't. If it was, then the company will need some relief.