When the 777 agrement was voted down it should have ended there. The ACPA contract has provisions for the introduction of new aircraft. Failing agreement on both sides the issue goes to binding arbitration. The reason it had to be voted on last time, was because it went beyond the scope of the contract in asking for further concessions.
Air Canada should just order the aircraft they want and let the contract work as it always had before with new aircraft introductions.
But now it looks like ACPA has agreed to binding arbitration on a new concessionary 777/787 agreement without a chance for a vote by the membership.
In effect they have accepted concessions for the entire pilot group merely on the chance that there may be some improvement in seniority for the Original Air Canada pilots.
It seems to be a long shot gamble and I don't really understand why the seniority issue has to be tied to further concessions.
This whole thing is a mess.
At this point I wish ACPA would just go away and we could start all over again with CAW, IAM or even (God forbid) ALPA.