Originally Posted by
gloopy
As for the rest of your assessment, all the reasons you suggest we take the TA WRT to the money right now makes sense, especially when coupled with the time value of money actuarials. But are the guaranteed negatives in the TA worth those undwewhelming yet meaningful but potentially short lived and temporary positives that we traded things away to get? That's the question.
You seem to be making an assumption that whatever gains we make in the TA will be “potentially short lived and temporary.” This of course is ALWAYS possible no matter what any contract provides, but it is completely irrelevant to our negotiations. Going back to the table to get more now doesn’t mean we wouldn’t have to get that up as well if concessions were required in the future. We can only hope that with each contract we get, we will see some sort of improvements that don’t go away, but there is certainly no guarantee of that as we all know. In the future, if things get really, really bad out there, we may be volunteering to give up positive things we scored from even previous contracts. Look at what we gave up prior to bankruptcy. Let’s just hope we never go there again. P.S. Too bad we can’t have the yes voters live under this TA and the no voters can go on fighting and take whatever gains they can get down the road.
Last edited by Waves; 06-24-2012 at 07:07 AM.