Originally Posted by
fly2ski
I like how so many think it took 4 years to negotiate this TA. It took 1 week! That's when the company for some unknown reason threw their best and final offer on the table. Guess what, we took it!! Someone, something, a higher power perhaps, said get it done. Up until then the company was shadow boxing with a rope-a-dope training partner. Duck, dive, stall all the while extending crews, questioning use of contractual rights, excessing, not hiring, asking to buy back vacation, and AVA. Contract Now explains it all.
Unless I am incorrect, I believe they finished negotiating some sections quite some time ago. It was the major money sections that were the last to be completed, but much of these negotiations were agreed to piecemeal, months before the final week.
I was curious if all those completed sections were kept a mystery from the reps. It seems that some of them were completely blindsided, shocked, by sections that were agreed upon a long time ago. I wonder if the mediation process requires that every single thing be kept secret until the final product is produced.