Originally Posted by rvr350

Now we're just justifying why we aren't worth what we're asking for in the survey. Just a few months ago, many here were touting "Time to get paid, with interest"... It isn't too quick for us to see a few shiny coins in this TA, and stop looking at the long term impact of this TA.

Do you think this TA is only 18 months long? We are gonna have to expand that much negotiating capital to, again, "recapture" everything this TA fails, and guess what, in 18 months, we definitely won't know what kind of environment we'll be in.

Our fight for QOL, pay, and every other improvements are a constant battle. We drop the ball in this one, and we're gonna reap the results in the next TA, the one after that, and so forth. We deserve the 16% raise and much much more.