I'm going to agree with both PD and Jerry on this one. I didn't like VB before, and I don't like it now. If none of these guys wanted it, why is it on there?

Same reason I guess the MEC is agreeing to cab fares in NYC, or the VEBA, or instructor bennies: horse-trading at the MEC. Some of it, I totally understand, some of it, I don't.

The VEBA, for example. I'm still trying to understand how it works. How does that saying go gain: "from each according to his means, to each according to his means?"

First time I've ever seen a forced voluntary program.