Originally Posted by Sink r8

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Not sure it'll help, but that's how I look at it also. If you think about it, we've been leading up to this ever since the opener, when people felt "improve Scope" was too vague. Some will not vote for a contract where we don't improve everything about Scope. I might vote for a contract that improves Scope in the aggregate, but it's going to take some very significant improvements overall, to purchase the right to get out of the 50-seat mess that the company's in.

IOW, we can negotiate some items within Section 1 relative to one another, as long as the end product is better, but if we trade all (or most) of Section 1 for W-2's, we're done.

Knowing when to say "no" is a lot more difficult than knowing when to say "yes".