Youre only fooled because you think you know more than the EB or you contend they are lying to you. The facts, presented with copious evidence and history, is the company wasn’t going to negotiate. Had we voted the
e-TA’s down we’d be in the same spot without the pay raises, retirement bumps, and have a bigger hill to climb for contract 202X. It was a good outcome under crappy circumstances.

In order to prove voting no was the better solution you’d have to provide supporting evidence that the union would have been able to force UPS’s hand in coming earnestly to the table. I’m sure the EB consider this but either they realized that there would be nothing we could actually do or that we lacked the resolve to get it done. Considering when they asked us to do the work of one pilot but we failed miserably, reasonable to see their lack of faith. We have Tonia on the warpath right now and we could easily fix it if we all chose to fly as scheduled but that’s not happening. Heck, we can’t even get people to write simple ERs which the union has repeatedly asked for. So no, forcing UPS to the table was clearly not an option making the e-TAs the only outcome that benefited us. IMHO that was a gift from the company, surprised they even indulged in it and a huge fist bump to the EB for squeezing those drops out of a rock.

To your point regarding contract length - yeah, these 10yr cycles are total bs but that’s an RLA issue primarily.