it is safe to say to renegotiate a whole new t/a (keeping only the sections that don't need to change) should take at least 2 years. Some sections the company and the union agreed to quickly, I can see that happening a second time. It will come down to probably 9-12 sections that will have to be brought back for tweaking.

You have to remember, Nonconnah now answers to the BOD and the stock holders. They have a risk as well, it is not like '99 where they only had to answer to NWA.

It should be interesting over the next week or two how the pilot group accepts the TA and how the road shows pan out. The most entertaining road show should be DTW with both rep's voting the TA down.