Brown said opposition to the contract has come from factions in the union that ran a leadership slate against his in the TWU's September elections. Complaints have centered on the contract's wage increases, he said. The contract includes a 10.5 percent raise over five years, but Brown said members had expressed dissatisfaction with the distribution of the raises. In each of the first two years of the contract, workers would receive 1 percent raises. That percentage would increase each of the next three years the contract covers.