I agree. I’m on the more sanguine end of the inflation discussion, but the raise is essentially 9.5% on 2019 rates. If we had only tightened up the contract and had big QOL increases, maybe this would’ve been palatable, but in conjunction with the added complexity of all the “gains,” and a few very prominent losses, I can’t understand how the MEC thought marketing this as industry-leading wasn’t going to go over like a fart in church.

I was on the fence at first, but the more I sat with the “we’ll put this provision in for PIs, but don’t intend to use it…” or the discretionary language in the LCA raises (marketed by the union as solid gains), and the fact that the scope language was even touched just had me scratching me head. It really felt like the company was playing chess and the union was playing checkers.