Well I can pass judgment on the AIP and it is grossly substandard. As to the final contract language, obviously I don't know yet. However, knowing that they have rejected many other previous inputs in the past, I am not hopeful of a sufficiently thorough legal language.

The union is selling it because their egos are on the line. They have spent a lot of time on this and they don't want to be seen as failures. But that's not my problem, if anything is substandard, it will be an automatic No. I don't believe for a second that the AIP is the absolute best we could have gotten. Maybe it is the best that they could have gotten but there are many other people at this company that could have done better than them. In fact, the battle is not over yet. We could stage informational pickets tomorrow at strategic locations to ratchet up force again. In my opinion, this union has made several severe tactical and strategic mistakes.

So yes, like the Democrats and Obama care, they pretty much have no choice but to sell it. However we have a choice in rejecting it. We must not except mediocrity under any circumstance.


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