The last Section 6 I was involved in took 4 years. "Openers" isn't a contract. Its "openers". If the company wanted to negotiate a full contract fast they could have just asked for that, but they didn't.

I'm just amazed that everyone seems to know exactly what the company wants to do, when they only things they actually asked for was a 2 year extension for some pay raises and a few other changes.

Also, if all it takes is a full contract negotiation to get all these things "fixed" why didn't we "fix" them on the last contract?