Originally Posted by
Flare
Help a new guy out: I just don't understand why the whole contract thing is such a secret. Why are negotiations held behind closed doors? Why is a TA not releasable for 7 full days? It feels like I'm still active duty and we're dealing with classified info. Also feels like it's harder to keep those who should be accountable.
Join the club. After C2012 I asked my rep if I could see our survey results. He asked why. I told him I wanted to see how close our contract came to our collective wishes (seemed reasonable to me).
He explained how unreasonable that is, how there's more involved that I didn't know, that it tipped our hand to the company, etc.
I still think accountability is a reasonable concept.