Cowbell, I think that you mistake someone's personal analysis of this TA as selfishness, and it's not. Everyone is analyzing this (no doubt, including you) as to how it will affect them, because it is something they can understand, and something they can quantify. By explaining how it affects them, it is giving an example, information to others who might be in the same situation. Albie has been asked a number of times to give his opinion.

For me personally, what matters is QOL. If this drags out another year, it costs me $30K in raises, two years, it costs me $69K. Would that ever be made up? It is a balance of whether my distrust of what how the company will interpret this TA outweighs the price of waiting, and if I think the issues I'm concerned about would even be fixed by continuing to negotiate. Add in the assessment that the union will have to add for negotiating further, since apparently we're out of $$, and you're talking some serious bucks, and I don't think weighing if it is worth it to wait is selfish at all. People are doing their own analysis, and their own critical thinking.

I appreciate people's honesty, and don't think daggers should be thrown at them for that.