Originally Posted by fadec

Suits must love 5 year contracts that go on for 10 years with basically 6 months of differential back-pay. We should be going into mediation and having strike votes within 90 days of an amendable date. This needs to happen immediately after the last contractual raise, not 3 years after. That it takes 3 years for an NMB release is all the more reason. We need to start the process now because it should have happened 3 years ago. The TA in the pipeline is nothing more than a delay tactic until ratification. I say so what if there's progress. It's progress that should have been made in 2018 to be ready for the 2019 amendable date. Do the strike vote now. Let's get the ball rolling. We can worry about this silly TA later.