Concentrating negotiating efforts into penalty rates for long TOD’s is exactly what brought the LH contract to the point where something “had to be done” due to TOD creep over the years.
It also created the despised “super seniority” situation that resulted in the squirrel cage on the B787.
Money does not cure fatigue, and ULR ops are not necessarily more fatiguing anyway.
It just doesn’t make sense, and any suggestion of re-introducing it shows a lack of lessons learned.
Put your negotiating efforts into the hourly rate, folks.