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Regardless of whether I support AMFA or the TWU, neither should impose debts on people who are not members of their organization and not represented by them.
This is more true than you realize. You are absolutely correct, the TWU should not impose debts on people who are not members of their organization, nor should they pose impose debts on their own membership. The concessionary tactics of the TWU International and a couple of Locals, have imposed a very great debt on it's members. Not only did the wage and benefit cuts, slice into the membership, but the length of the concessionary contract will have this membership in economic straits for many years to come. It is no longer twenty years of concessions caused by the TWU, it is that plus the contract in force today. Unless the company is generous with Section 6 openers, it will be at least January 1st 2009 before we negotiate again.