Originally Posted by Hueypilot

I do understand all of those things you wrote. But I have my position on this particular situation because it's not really true "negotiations". That occurred when the MTA was penned. APA had a chance to make that happen then, because it was at that point that various people (including Parker and Kirby) wanted the MTA signed so they could proceed with the merger. This is just the mopping-up phase. They already cleaned APA's clock. HBT and the other issues have value to them, but not enough value to drive them to cave into any of APA's more costly requirements. The only "out" we have is an arbitrated result, and I'm pretty certain the company is willing to live through an arbitrated contract if that's the way we want to go.