Originally Posted by Jughead135

But what's the rush?

Those industry average rates (or better?) are a given for any contract going forward. They're not a "win."

Full retro in this TA could be considered a "win"; it's undeniably at risk if we turn down this contract. That we won't get it going forward isn't a given, but a real possibility to weigh & consider. The likely answer is somewhere in the middle: if negotiating full retro is impossible down the road, then some form of "signing bonus" would be likely. Probably appropriate to consider it "gone," though, for comparison purposes in a "what-if" scenario of voting down the TA.

Your approach is selling the SL changes (along with all the other badness; 3.B.4 & JV Scope top my list) for that retro check. Not "nothing"; but, I would argue, hardly worth it in the long run.