[quote=Freightpuppy;665867] ...Even if what you say is true about favoring the 2-8 year people......maybe it was time since obviously the last contract hosed them completely... quote]

The previous contract did not hose them completely. Those pay rates (slope) were the ones instituted with the first contract. All of us were paid under them, whether hired in 1988 or later, until the current contract. There were significant across-the-board raises for everyone in subsequent contracts.

We didn't pit one group against the other until a failed candidate for union president started the generational warfare.