Should be pretty easy for the NO votes to find a post indicating that the hypothetical 2016 TA payrates would be numerically lower (worse) than CBA 2015.

Should be pretty easy for the NO votes to find a post indicating that the work rules in a hypothetical 2016 TA would be worse than those in CBA 2015.

What I tend to recall is that most of the yes voters thought a regrouping from a NO vote would be in the 3-6 months with a likely TA some time summer of 2016 effective prior to peak 2016. Not a company panic here's everything you want have the TA effective by Dec 2015 had the narrowly passed TA vote gone the other way.
And it's only with hindsight that we know there wasn't a black swan economic event in 2016. By definition, we can't predict a black swan but you just never quite know what the future will bring. God knows virtually no one would've bet on a Trump presidential victory 15 months ago.

But, how is that likely timing any different than the time it took Delta to regroup?

And I do tend to remember arguments that delaying a year was unlikely to result in so great an improvement to counter the time value of money.

UPS future pay increases are 3%. SWA's are 3%. Delta's 3-3-4%.

Does that strengthen or weak our arguments with the NMB that our future pay raises are insufficient?