No offense, but your comment shows that you didn't understand how the Transactional Agreement was structured. The Joint Contract and SLI were tied to each other, which means that they both had to be agreed upon to be effective. Now we are working under a different structure and the two are decoupled, which means that the Joint Contract will be voted on separately, (we don't actually get to vote on the SLI,) thereby keeping any one group from holding payraises for everybody hostage until the SLI is concluded to their satisfaction. This effectively prevents the Delta pilots from using LOA 19 to pressure the NW pilots to accept an SLI slanted towards us. I would think that that is what the NW pilots would want.