Originally Posted by
ERflyer
Some of us thought they were smoking crack with the new opener and many people did not think they were serious. Especially outside the industry. But it was a relatively good strategy in the end because it did drive the end result higher somewhat.
TA2 fixed a lot of the problems with TA1 and added about 5% more compared to TA1 and another one in January 1, 2019.
That being said I like this TA better.
This is where I feel we failed in allowing the negotiation to be framed as a comparison to TA1, which was soundly defeated by the pilot group, vice what we actually desired. We had an opportunity to drastically reframe the debate citing the first ever down vote coupled with pretty dramatic union turnover but instead went for the easier route of "focus plus." We never even broached retirement or medical, even as a potential give aways for other gains. I feel a significant amount of the yes vote was with very serious misgivings, with fear of never getting anything better given our recent TA counters history.