Originally Posted by symbian simian

Just no. Not at all. A new contract should have been negotiated and ready to be signed on by the amendable date. Always. If that had happened, the last year of the 4 year contract would not have kept up with the unusually high inflation, but the next contract should have a correction for that. You are saying that it is better to not get any pay raises for almost 4 years, just in case inflation goes up, and then have to fight to get those rates up, but still lose out because of no 100% retro. Not even close.