I guess my point is that we are dealing with a negotiated contract that is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. We all would like to go back in time and prevent the inequities of past contracts be they the B scale, DC contributions, outsourcing, loss of the DB plan (for south guys), etc. Unfortunately that is just not possible. All we can do now is try to correct as much as we can in the next contract. This is a fatalist approach but I just don't see any way the company will agree to address the DC inequity even if it gets past the MEC.

Denny