Originally Posted by
echelon
By the time we start negotiating, the big 4 will have already negotiated new contracts, that will even further extend their lead over ours. From where I sit, it looks like we'll be lucky to achieve 2018's industry standard by 2024, let alone 2020's industry standard in 2020.
If someone else calls, I'm gone. I don't have the patience to look forward to maybe, possibly, in a decade, potentially, as a result of years and years of exhausting negativity and constantly deteriorating management relations and increasingly hostile work environments, finally getting something that everyone else had 10 years ago. I'm approaching 2 years here and I've seen enough.
I totally get what you're saying...
There are many QOL and Scheduling provisions in our contract that are just baaaaddd. Like more than a few degrees removed from Industry Standard.
To your point, it's like we're in the basement and we are trying to get to the penthouse where the party's at. The point I wanted to make was that the floor we end up on after this upcoming negotiation concludes will be a direct function of how unified and determined our push upward ends up being.