My boy PCL here summed it up extremely well.
What I'm saying is that if we're not moving forward, management is pushing us back. And why shouldn't they? It's their job to minimize their cost structure and we are a part of that equation so to offset their natural position we need to be fighting for as high of a pay rate as we can possibly get, because we can see from a historical perspective that said pay rate will go out the window during tough economic times. Or in other words, make as much money as you possibly can when you can. In a true capitalistic system, with the rules that we have in this industry, either we should be getting more or we should be getting less, but our pay rates *should* be fluid all the time.
Now Lloyd I don't know about you, but I like gadgets, and settling for less money buys less gadgets. That, to me, is all I need to think about when I say that, and it gives me reason to work for an even better contract in 2010!
