As we enter what may be the final week of negotiations (March 24th - 27th), we wanted to give you a clearer sense of where negotiations stand and what to expect going forward as we push to secure our revised Tentative Agreement. 

This week, we met in Federal Mediation in Chicago. The parties made substantial progress on all outstanding issues and are very close to a final Tentative Agreement. We are down to several open issues which we anticipate resolving at our next Mediation session in Washington, DC, from March 24^th to the 27^th. We expect we will be able to reach a complete Tentative Agreement at that session. 

We met last week in Chicago from February 10th-12th for Federal Mediation to continue our push for a revised Tentative Agreement. In this update, we want to provide insight of where we are in bargaining and what to expect moving forward.

Since we started bargaining in October, we have worked through many of the non-economic issues. These include fixes to language in areas such as Hotels and electronic notifications. Those discussions have gone well overall, and we have made progress in improving contractual language.