We have every right to ask for more. My point all along has been, if we do, and we actually expect to get more, we need a more convincing argument than "give us more because we think we deserve more." As I mentioned previously, you do a great job of listing all the things you don't like about the current TA. But complaining about something is the easy part. Finding solutions to what you are complaining about takes real work. So far, the most common solution I've read is, "we reject this TA and reopen negotiations." That isn't a solution. That's just the next step. To believe it's a solution, you must assume that our current NC didn't spend four years exhausting every approach to wrestle as much as they could from the company. They must have missed some opportunity that would have convinced the company to increase our payrates above what is listed in the TA, and improve our A plan, and fix all the other countless things you've listed over the last couple weeks. Your solution seems to be that by simply informing our NC and the company through a no vote, that we want more, they will have a eureka moment and quickly adjust everything upward to make us happy.
I'm not buying it. So before I vote to shelve the gains our NC did accomplish in this TA, I want to see some evidence that we aren't trying to move forward without an effective strategy to accomplish what someone else characterized as "eye-watering" improvements. Our MEC chair said in his recent email that "we have plans." He mentioned informational picketing and unity events. Sound familiar? Can you help him out?