When people talk about retirement, I often assume they mean money. If you don’t need money, perhaps this agreement does nothing for you. Based on you wanting to keep working here beyond 65, I’ve also assumed you want more money.

Have you calculated how much more money you’ll generate in your remaining months of this agreement over baseline? Care to share that figure? Or, if you tell me how many hours you credit each year at 12 year 350A, and how many LCA hours, I’ll even calculate it for you.

From an outside observer, the problem is that your demonstrably false statements invalidate any actual talking points you might be trying to make and your ability to convince anyone to change their thoughts about this TA plummets to near zero.

Here is some alternative phrasing you could try:

”This agreement doesn’t boost my retirement enough, quickly enough, because I have to retire soon”

”The pay rates aren’t going up fast enough or high enough”

”I was underpaid in 2020 through 2022, and this agreement doesn’t give me enough back pay.”

”My peers in or going to other fleets shouldn’t get as much as I get on the 350”

It’s hard to argue with opinions about scale. It’s pretty easy to identify lies or misrepresentations about the facts though, chief. Every demographic who worked one day after Dec 31, 2019 gets something out of this deal. My hunch is it’ll put significant six figures in your pocket - maybe even 500k between 2020 and your age 65? 100k here…100k there…pretty soon we’re talking real money!