Originally Posted by
JamesBond
This is an interesting post. Especially the last sentence. I'd like to break it down a little further, but first I need you to define 'immediately'.
In this context, I would say immediately means they will see some benefit in that particular contract cycle. Surely we can vote for a contract that contains small things that may benefit us only in the more distant future or never at all. But I wouldn’t expect such items to make up a significant percentage of a contract’s cost. The only retirement restoration proposals I have heard about are enormously expensive and benefit only a small group of people in the first contract cycle. I think that train left the station with the VEOP.