Today’s session was a continuation of going over numbers, clarifying the language of each side’s proposals, and just generally hacking away at the mountain of issues, trying to find a way over.

            Several Orlando drivers joined the bargaining committee for pizzas and sodas after the day’s negotiations ended.  It was, as always, valuable for us on the board to hear their stories, their immediate concerns, the problems they’ve been facing at work, and of the great hope they all have of working to make our jobs into the kinds of decent careers that we all know they could be. 

             We will hit the negotiating table with renewed vigor tomorrow after the terrific encouragement from the members at tonight’s meeting.