A question for Airdale and surreal:
Let's say the hevans part, and the golden contract falls into our collective laps. All the positions you propose are included.
Without the ability to enforce a contract, as we all know, the ream of paper with all the little black characters written on it is nothing more than a hard-fought and expesive doorstop.
Should a mechanism be devised to punish the company for bad management, and punitive damages be paid to each individual pilot, how long would the contract last?
How would such a contract be undeniably enforcable?
Don't spend too much effort on a great logic train, because as history has shown, repeatedly, in this industry, bankruptcy trumps all.
You can either negotiate in a concessionary mode, or just have the entire contract tossed. Which of these evils would you choose and why?
Naturally, in a perfect world, the pilots would tell the company to pound sand, the courts would not allow relief on the contract.
Then the company files for liquidation. The leases are all cancelled, the labor force sent on the street. Miraculously, all the same faces will file a DOT petition for a low cost, start up with wonderful service enhancements filling the void of dead airline XYZ. You'll go through training, cause you need a job, flying a jet around twice as much at half the pay rate with no work rules. As time wears on, the cheap paint they slapped on the airframe starts to come off. You notice a familiar hue underneath. You look at the serial number. It's a bird you used to fly for a company you used to work for with a CBA. You repatedly notice this through out the fleet.
Sorry to be such a Debby Downer, but the game is rigged, and not in our favor. The process from the RLA, to the bankruptcy protection, to union-busting via the ol' CH7 and restart. You can really see it at the second tier airlines, and especially the ACMI freight world. The planes and people stay the same. The name, contracts and color of the paint are all that shuffle. And the union and contract are left in the dust, until you can organize a drive, and negotiate a CBA. That should only be about a 5 yr process.
There's a reason the F/O can't see the panel. 
