Sounds like the ASA negotiators are fatigued and should look at a new contract with their employer. You people really aren't cut out for the job if it takes the threat of disruptive industrial action by Civil Air and a bit of brow beating by the IRC to get you back to the table.
"... to suggest otherwise is demeaning to the part many other people in the organisation played in this very important exercise" isn't it, BERNIE?