You gave up finite profit sharing for a finite pay raise on a 1:1 or better basis while you kept the infinite portion of the profit sharing. That means in good years you make more and in bad years you make more. I don't see how that was a bad deal. I see no reason to give up any of the profit sharing this time around. It's an apples and oranges comparison.

The only place I've seen that the company wants profit sharing in exchange for a quick contract - which doesn't even make sense, BTW - is on this board. I've seen the company repeatedly tout the merits of profit sharing and just recently say they want a quick contract.

We have no way of knowing how seriously the company is about valuing labor peace until negotiations start. If the company's opener drops profit sharing and isn't a significant contractual improvement (overall, they will have items the want for efficiency purposes) it will be clear they don't want an early contract and they don't value labor peace. Until that point we can only speculate.