Two points I need to make about our proposed pay. First, For captains it amounts to an inflation adjusted raise only if you use 1998 12 year captain #. Our company's profits have exploded, yet I and every other UPS captain have been left behind. First Officers benefited greatly in this T/A, however. The pseudo B scale is erased over 5 years, and $40 big G's are tossed their way to help get the Yes vote.

This T/A overall is a dog, and I have yet to meet someone who disagrees. We've given away so much already that even a No vote won't assure us anything in the future. I'm voting Yes nonetheless because waiting another year could be fatal for our group, as in another terrorist strike, Fedex settles with many areas below what we've got T/Ad, PEB possibility, etc. If this T/A goes under we only see microscopic improvements if any in a 2007 T/A. This group has made collective mistakes in the past, as it did when it rejected B. Miller's midterm T/A a few years ago. I hope we don't make another costly mistake. Fire away.