Agreed. But this isn't "dropping the ball". This is an intentional management strategy. They are choosing to staff the operation like Walmart chooses to staff its cash registers, and this TA has been engineered to support that strategy, and APA negotiators decided to enable that. Yes voters who won't look beyond pay rates will wonder why they hate their work life five years from now. I've had a multiple decade career, and have one foot out the door. I could easily vote yes, take the money and run. I'm voting no because in the end that $ won't make any difference to my financial security in retirement and I have at least some responsibility to try and leave things better than they were.