As long as we refuse to tolerate the debate even being framed around COLA being called a "raise over the life of" and get a handle on scope at all levels we might have a chance.

I'm sure we could easily get 30, 40 maybe even 50% fake "raises" if we did little to nothing over scope and it took half a decade or more to get those fake "raises". By that time inflation/currency devaluation will have taken away most or all of our fake raise. COLA over time is not a raise, it is merely break even to account for wage destroying headwinds. Its like an additional couple thousand pounds of gas to fly west in a head wind. That's not optional or luxury gas, that's mission critical gas just to break even.

COLA IS NOT A RAISE!!!!!!!!!!