CAP371 was essentially drawn up just after WW2. It is NOT outmoded but it has been subjected to changes, or attempted changes over the years, but not much.
EASA is a totally different thing. It makes changes that affect all of us and it will be very difficult to change anything. Have you heard of any union getting items in the ANO changed? No? That is because it is a legislative document and so will the new FTL scheme designed by the bureaucrats in Europe. They will accept questions but will probably do nothing.
How all this makes unions an irrelevance is a mystery to me. Unions were set up to improve safety, pay and conditions - this role has not changed. The power of a union is essentially the threat of crippling a company by withdrawing labour.
Red herring - with about as much teeth too. BASSA or Unite would have the bite of a dead frog. In the case of BASSA very true, wouldn't you say?
Please read the whole 'boring' number of pages. This will be LAW soon and who knows we might change to FAA rules..........there's a thought.
Please do not make the mistake that many have made before that a union can win over legislature.