No it is not. If you will recall (assuming you were at the table or back of the room) even some of the reps who voted yes we're very frustrated with the process and there were many discussions about how to rectify things in the future, although it met resistance with the then chairman and the reps who were more or less on the inside.

Like it or not, the reps were the last to know on many issues such as pay, when it was being discussed, and the conversion of profit sharing. These things were "presented" as if they were last minute items and they were not. Insiders knew general numbers at least a week before the informal conference call seeking "non direction direction" on something that was already semi negotiated.

You don't have to be smart to figure out why the info was concealed. Presenting this info to the MEC would at a minimum, have delayed the completion of the TA by sending the negotiators back after redirection, or just rejecting it outright since they would not be in the TA hotbox. This was unacceptable to an Admin who wanted the deal and maneuvered around part of the MEC to make it happen.