Apologize for quoting myself, but this was not just a tongue in cheek comment.

The lack of payment for the last contract is a good reason for several thousand no votes on this one. Why agree to give everyone else a raise while quietly agreeing that witholding our bonus was the right thing to do. It wasn't, and I think to a man/woman, no one on the CAL side expected they would have been waiting years to get their pay while the rest got theirs.