Originally Posted by sailingfun

What you omit about the 8/5/5 I posted as something I would accept is I also wanted a 18% DC and a additional 600 million in QOL improvements at signing for a total of around 1 billion. Inflation was also running 2% at the time. We will not get even a quarter of 1-billion in retro payments for 2019. Had we done that and with the additional 5/5 the value of our contract would have increased a a total of 1.4 billion for 2022. We would be having a big discussion about if we will get the next contract done by this Dec. We will never regain what we lost. The biggest issue the MEC will have is trying to spin whatever we end up with as a victory and get it ratified.