Stevieboy330 - Laughing Stock
It is my understanding that many industrial unions & employee contract negotiators as well as tertiary institutions are starting to cite the "CX Pilot body & the AOA" as an example of exceedingly poor salary & contract negotiators.
As a professional group, the representatives of the Pilots at CX have demonstrated themselves as amateurs with little to no negotiating presence or ability.
Many now consider the Pilot representatives as a virtual laughing stock. With "negotiations" wholly consisting of bluff after bluff with no follow through whatsoever. On the other side of the table is a well briefed, highly organised & unified employer who considers the employee spokes party weak, easily manipulated & ineffective.
It is astonishing to me that the Pilots of CX would continue to stand for such treatment when the reality of their potential impact on their employer could be so severe.
Unfortunately, the label of "laughing stock" may have begun a little earlier than you think - the day the AOA hired an ex-officer of one of the most dysfunctional pilot unions in the world; USAPA - A union designed to avoid a legal seniority agreement. As a result of their decisions, USAPA pilots were some of the most poorly paid major airline pilots in the United States.
I wish you all the best. Sincerely.