https://youtu.be/cvZdudmdi8c
I do not have first hand knowledge. I'm not party to the side bars. Actually, the only first hand knowledge is with Glass, upper crust of TWU and IAM. Not even all negotiation committee has first hand. That said, how would I know? Well, it seems as if the information is becoming more common. I have no idea what happened this week.
What I do think is a crime, is that the updates are a joke. They mention the word 'progress' in every update but are misusing that word. Also, they aren't attacking Parker at all in updates. Sure Prez can come on here and claim Parker is a brute, but the official updates are lovey dovey and scream progress. Like anything, peeps can believe what they want.
At the end of the day, we should have a good contract regardless this fall as long as all parties are fair. But again, we can't expect any movement on scope, wages, etc., if our Association has refused to open up those articles. Only 7 articles are open right now. After 3 years the TWU and IAM still haven't opened up scope, wages, health care, retirement, etc, other than the initial general proposal on December 4th. Regardless of what one believes, there is no evidence backing up the Association claims, and a very weak lie last week claiming it had to cancel negotiations due to personal conflicts with 4 guys who decided it was more important to dabble with seniority. We can say with 100% certainty that was BS.