It’s all in how they immediately trounced an agreement and all they said is things changed. Well they didn’t have the balls to tell all other employees that a deal is a deal. They’re worried it’d show other groups that there is a benefit to a union. Period. Well maybe don’t agree to it next time. We are always made aware how we are different than the rest of the employees due to our “bargaining agent” and that things that are given en masse to all others (like merit raises) aren’t given to us b/c of the contract. So we negotiate a very industry average LOA that does save a lot of money but it immediately gets broken and then asks for something different.
Maybe they should’ve kept the SILs and then asked for something additional.
It set a precedent. Set a very bad tone. They broke a promise. Then got a huge bailout. After horrible greedy practices of massive waste of stock buybacks that only help institutional investors or executives selling massive amounts of stock. Then they have the nerve to cut our pay in lieu of a massive tax funded bailout... sorry. We made a great offer. You agreed.
Once bitten. Twice shy. We learned our lesson the last time.