cxorcist
Quad,
The same cannot be said of you. You come across as a scared, little man who strangely finds comfort in the "reality" of self-defeatism. Guarantee you're not in the AOA but have a well rehearsed explanation for why not. At the end of the day, you're just smarter than the rest of us with our "unloaded guns."
Oh, you'd be surprised, and if you've ever spent any time peering down on Ashley Road I think you'd be hearing the echoes of many great debates right now.
Once we get through the sheer frustration, resentment and anger, real grownups need to have a real think about where we want to go and how we go about it. While your solution of CC and then "some form of escalated IA " has the undertones of too many beers too late at the plaza, perhaps more radical tactics should be used? As you've already agreed, a strike will break the bank for far too many far too early and the company knows this. At the same time they're taunting us to go into Coordinated Contract Compliance, which unless you're a bull raging about in a ring should give rise to some serious pause and debate about what's gonna happen next.