There is a lot to be said for Skillets and Ovals way of dealing with the roster changes.
For those newer folks in CX our previous roster practices was based on a one year period with virtually zero chance of EFP. PX and simulator was pretty much unlimited depending on your base and attracted peanuts if exceeding the annual credit. Roster practices has always been a topic of major disagreement between the company and the pilots and it culminated in 49 of our colleagues being fired in 2001. When an opportunity to move to a monthly credit system presented itself we as a group had to consider long and hard as to its suitability. At the end of the day, we all voted and decided a monthly system with deficiencies was better than a yearly system which was unilaterally implemented by the company several years earlier.
No doubt the RP's are in dire need of an overhaul to be more fair. Certainly the PX credit, credit for leave, reserve rules, use of O days and management of EFP need a lot of work and I hope all the whiners filled in the HKAOA survey to be considered.