Originally Posted by
spooldup
According to our union, they have been making meaningful progress over the last few sessions and in the small meetings they have outside of the NMB sessions. TAs are TAs. Usually, contracts aren't slowly done over time, but rushed and finished in a month or so.
I wasn't here for our last one, but from what I understand, it was ground to a halt, then barry came to the table and they got it done in like a week or so and had it out to vote on.
Most of the stuff stays the same roughly, just some wording changes. The biggest part is the economics of it which are debated and changed last minute. Personally, anything is better than nothing, we want a contract yesterday and the company wants one never. We will get one sometime in between those.
Expanding on what you said. The vast majority of releases (30-day cooling-off period) occur when only a few sections remain to be TA'd. These are the meat-and-potato sections: Pay, benefits, and retirement. While I don't like how things have played out and the company's current position, I do see this as progress.