How is it keeping the bar low? They offered us something that still wouldn't have brought us up to industry standard pay for FOs so our MEC said no. It was not a permanent contract improvement, it was a short term bonus so the MEC said no. The company wanted a cheap gimmick to advertise to new hires without giving any real improvements to the pilots on property. That's not raising the bar, that's bending over to help the company staff and fix a mess they created. If they want to succeed they need to fix some of the real problems around here.