My thoughts as well...though I guess the company could have given us proposals on everything without us actually giving the company a section 3 proposal first?

I would think they could establish a pre-JCBA "snapshot" of our payrates/bands (just like seniority lists) for purposes of the SLI that ignored 747/777 payrates in the JCBA. Then the expectations argument cannot use the new rates.

I would also think separate pay benefits everyone once we get beyond the SLI issues...though, maybe not a whole lot if the whale goes away...
Pay banding is a concessionary era development, is it not?