so I'm not the only one that gets sick of people flaunting their banked holidays and sick days. If that is in fact what caused such a shitty deal, that really stinks. There are folks near retirement at TC that have so much banked sick leave and maxed out vacation days that there isn't enough time to take them. Still, those same people will fight tooth and nail to get more leave. one guy in my office, we'll call "Chee", was complaining about leave in the last dispute and I asked him "how many sick days do you have right now?". He answered something like 9 MONTHS! Along with teh 8 weeks of vacation time, I had to remind him that he has nothing to complain about.