"Changing from 7 to 6 credit hours per day will have no effect on your pay or number of days worked."

"Lie flat seats won't take away our first class deadheads".

"We won't negotiate to have two different retirement plans." (Unless, of course, one of them includes pancakes, in that case, everyone will have a different plan, depending on how hard they worked, and whether the legacy retirement still exists remains to be seen.)

"Those that didn't get their $25,000 VEBA bank account will get it in the next contract."

"We will fix retirement in the 2015 contract."

There have been lots of things said by the union over the years that turned out not to be true.

Read the fine print. Be spring loaded to vote no. Make them prove we are getting a good deal. Don't believe any "interpretation" anyone tells you.

The only thing that matters is what is written on the paper, and always remember that their lawyers are better than ours, so plan to lose any interpretations necessary.