Tim Nelson
Veteran
The company will argue this to who? Not a court and not the NMB because they can't and you don't understand the RLA which ONLY allows a company to change a contract after a cooling off. It's called collective bargaining.Mikey Honey, I couldn't wait! I just had to dig right in! I read it, and it just doesn't cover this problem we have. I would love not to worry about that pesky east contract being so rudely forced on us. After reading that, I still worry. Sugar, this won't stop it. This clearly referes to contract ratifications that were negotiated. The company will argue that we westies are IAM and therefore this is our contract. We pay IAM dues and are represented by IAM, blah, blah, blah. I can hear those dreadful men now! I have a lot more thoughts on this but don't want to repeat myself. See my post to Timmy, I poured my heart out to him on this very thing. Thanks ever so much for trying to help! Very sweet of you! I love your urbff guesses! Keep them coming honey and I'll let you know when you get it!
What the company CAN DO is ask the IAM to change direction and consider negotiations that would merge the west into the east contract. Such negotiations would have to be met with a ratification by the west. The only reason why the east is voting on this is because our contract was changed. If the east contract doesn't change but yours does then only the west would vote.
If the IAM opened this up then any merging the west into the east would have to be acceptable to the west by vote. It's the bylaws.
regards,
Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago