Section 4, 5 and 7 should be closed by today IF they're motivated. Seriously, a pro rated day? Just take the min guarantee, subtract the number of min days off from the number of days in the month and divide. For example: 75 hour guarantee, 30-11=19. 75/19=3.95. Pro rated day = 3.95 hours. Yeah, yeah. There are some months with 31 days. Screw it. They've been getting those extra days for free from guys not breaking guarantee for years. They have to give on something. Section 5 is something we have NOW under our 1999 agreement. If the hotel van isn't there after 15 minutes, we get a taxi, and the company reimburses us. Apparently, since we've gone to such crappy hotels they've seen an uptick in reimbursements (or the number of guys willing to do it), and they don't want that in the contract anymore.

Section 7 is a big one, but if they're motivated, they'll HAVE to close at least one big section a day to get it done. To me, this is the easiest one. We either keep the slide or, well, the JCBA dies, cause I don't see anything passing without vacation slide. We already bid our vacations for 2011 here, and I bid mine based on HAVING the slide. To get hosed now would make a LOT of guys want to break things.