Originally Posted by BananaHammock

A lot of these problems are of your own doing. Union will not agree to first-year pay raises from the company without raising all wages (fair enough... to a degree...) or fear that raising only first year rates will hamper negotiations later on(possibly remotely true but probably not...and with a joint contract due with Green or Blue it doesn't really...).

So bottom line you reap what you sow. **** on first-year guys while reaping your own - now you get endless reserve and forever upgrade times and lack of growth.

I know this opinion will be as popular as 40grit toilet paper but oh well, quit your whining if you're not going to do something about it.