Say Mach Number - no current member of any so-called ERC has been appointed in accordance with the rules (such as they are). What your chum has chosen to forget is that if he was voted in some time ago, he no longer meets Ryanair's own requirements for ERC membership (does he know the rules, indeed does he care?).
Here is a direct question: Did your chum go and ask others to help entirely on his own initiative or was he "encouraged" to do so by Ryanair, and was he pointed in "the right direction"?
Put another way, this situation stinks and these people are engaging in a form of self-serving collaboration designed to undermine their colleagues.
If you believe that the 3% was not for the granting before the "negitiations" ever started you need to start thinking a bit. Presumably you are neither aware that the 3% "settlement figure" was outlined on REPA when the sham was forecast some time ago.
Don't take us all for fools. Your chum serves his own self-determined purposes, not those of the pilots on whose behalf HE has chosen to speak. If your chum was a true democrat he would understand exactly what it is that he has done to his colleagues.