Originally Posted by gloopy

Ha, am I that much of a rebellious contrarian?

I root for the home team too, and sometimes even sip the Kool Aid a bit. Although this one time I saw a guy without his hat on and I didn't even tell on him. But I'm a zealous defender of our Section 1 because that is the mother of all sections that controls who all the other sections apply to. I place [DALPA] jobs as our single highest priority, so that's not exactly anti-DALPA. I haven't ever sent in a DPA card. I give to the PAC. I've done a small amount of "extra" stuff; not even worthy of mention, but suffice it to say not one minute on FPL ever, nor one dollar on any expense account. Not implying that there are no legit uses of those of course. I was an initial soft yes on TA15 (for DALPA touted TVM!) until I actually read it, and then became a strong hard NO because of way too many concessions in light of insufficient gains to justify them.

On this TA I was a Moderate Yes WRT pay at first, but am highly skeptical on other issues embedded within it, so that makes me an on the fence maybe at this point. I will give a road show, continued discussion and rep interaction a chance before I make up my mind. I will not be distracted by the rates however, and I always contend that we absolutely must look at any and all language in any TA from the POV of a hostile current or future management team who will use it to its fullest potential if they choose to do so.