There was some arrangement on shorthaul that took care of their - lots of duty hours but not many flying hours - situation. I can't remember what it was as it didn't concern me, it may have been some kind of flight pay (that rings a bell actually).
What about the destination payments? I haven't had one for months but I'd be getting a slice of the DES pot everytime I came to work if it was rolled into the hourly rate.
I wish CC89 had had some simple tag-line that was easil picked up and understood aloong the lines of :
'the same money - distributed per hour - not taxed'
Maybe that way crew would not have been caught up in the bluster that BASSA was spouting all emanating from their rep who was doing the negotiation who didn't even understand the proposal.