"what happened to all the picket signs and parked citations y'all were talking about??"
Can you say RLA...RLA....RLA...RLA...Not gonna happen.
"and please, I hope everyone does not have the attitude that "uh...maybe NEXT contract.."
The TA'd sections are already miles ahead of the current contract, with a reasonable pay raise it would be dumb to vote it down rather than take the money and bennies now and work on the next one. Otherwise we end up with the current pathetic contract for another 3 years of negotiating mediating. I only wish we would have had something to start with 3+ years ago while they worked on the 3rd contract for the last 3 years instead of staying under the current contract the whole time.