Originally Posted by SoloPilot

pattern bargaining:

1. a collective bargaining technique in which contract terms in one settlement are used as models to be imposed on other negotiating parties within an industry.

Every idiot thinks “pattern bargaining” means you have to one up the last guy. AAs contract improvements exceeded deltas by a more than a billion. I’m not crying they didn’t increase the NB rate by one percent. You’ve been at two majors by 30, enjoy hitting the timing jackpot.