I hear ya. I voted no. Not real pleased with the contract but it passed. And yes, that is all it takes. Just like ours was PBS. It takes 2 sides to agree, I am of the opinion they would never have agreed. I will spell it out for you now that its over. $130K in todays or 2050 dollars is a lot of money, indexed or not. It leads the industry, indexed or not. They froze the "A plan" for the rest of the company in 2008 (or so) and there is no way they could justify not only keeping ours, but increasing it as well.

Could they afford to increase it? Financially, probably. Company politics and appearances, no way. So I will say it again, it was never going to happen, no matter what we gave up. They had to find some other vessel to use to sweeten the pot and I wish they had sweetened it more than they did, but we got what we were willing to stand up for, and it wasn't that much.

Its on the pilot group as much as the NC and the MEC, if not more so.