Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

Nah, I've never seen a company opener that wasn't a ridiculous insult. I would have stayed in the room and complimented management on their extraordinary sense of humor.

Here's the part that bothers me: Why don't we know what WE opened with? What did WE actually ASK for? Was it 20/40/20/20 and all RJ's gone? Was it 5/9/4/4 and only 35 more 70 seat RJ's? Our union refuses to say...even years after the contract is signed.

We simply don't know how aggressive or lame our union is in negotiations, because they refuse to let us know. To paraphrase what Timbo said earlier, it seems our union feels that the less info they give about how they do things, the less chance they can be held accountable.

Carl