Originally Posted by
Packrat
He has to be hopeful during contract negotiations. Why? Because he's going to have to convince the rank and file to vote for a contract that contains it.
Come back AFTER PBS is in your contract and let's see who's got control of the algorithm.
I don't know whether to be more impressed with your pessimism about them agreeing to a program that can give both sides efficiency out of spite or your optimism that if they were ever going to agree to it in negotiations that they would simply hand control over to the union for free outside of them.
I'm an outsider, but the comparisons some of you draw are interesting to me. "They have full control because it's in the contract, thus they will never agree to anything else." By that logic they won't ever agree to anything that isn't current book. I guess that makes your negotiating position easy.