Originally Posted by tennisguru

Honestly, it seems we’re making this more complicated than it needs to be. One thing that would be pretty easy to add would be one last pay raise ON the amendable date. Having that on our last contract would have given us another raise on 1/1/2020. All we’d really need after that is another single year of some increase (3%, CPI+, whatever). Those two items alone would buy us two additional years of raises, and if it’s taking us 3+ years past amendable to get a new contract, then there’s something pretty major probably going on in the background to make that happen (like a pandemic). And even if another negotiations do run more than 2 years past the amendable date, having my proposed items would also greatly lower the retro that the company would have to pay, making it much easier to get full retro whenever a deal is done.