It gets us a little closer then sitting at our current pay rates for another couple years while we hope our next NC can coax more money out of the company than the last did. The same pesky math applies to the future as well. $5000 a year for a "signing bonus" doesn't compensate for the money we won't be earning without the 10% pay raise we would gain the first year of this TA.
Unless you assume the company will be willing to compensate us for rejecting the current TA they and our MEC agreed to.