How about a good button and t-shirt campaign to show them that you mean business!
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ooh, I got it: more "Show Me The Shared Sacrifice" shirts! Which really translates into "we're too (deleted by moderator: profanity) stupid to know how to craft up a contract that's VERIFIABLE, AND COURT ENFORCEABLE with regard to what management was supposed to "give up!"How about a good button and t-shirt campaign to show them that you mean business!
J.H.Christ, even the IAM didn't stoop to the level where Memorial Day isn't a paid holiday. Do you realize that the "net gain" in paid holidays over the sixty years of CSTWU representation is a NEGATIVE ONE? But I can't give them IAM cowards too much credit: they did sell us "red-headed shepchildren" TWAers down the river without a whimper.......
I could care less who would come in and try to get a representation vote, anything but what's there now would get my vote.
Since we have one of the biggest two-faced AAers back in KC (from AFW) now I'm curious as to whether or not he'll be passing out AMFA literature or running for a TWU office -- he likes to play both sides of the fence -- and since he knows everything (far more than us "RHSC" types) I'm sure he'll have it all solved real soon.
Sign me up for another T-shirt: the last one didn't last too long cleaning up oil on the floor of my garage, maybe this one will do better!
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I think if I were to offer a plan to you it would fall upon deaf ears. Your hear nothing, you see nothing, and you willfully will not try to understand anything.......Correcting this is only up to you informer
I would very much like to hear your plan also.
However, if your plan does not include the 'International' (
) representation becoming fully accountable (ie, removeable) for their actions, don't bother with an explaination.
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<_< ------ Let's keep things in prospective here. I believe Highspeed is a Machinist, not an AMT. (No disrespect Highspeed! Machinists are important to this operation also!) But, maybe, he's afraid he'll be left out in the cold with a Craft Union!
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He and many others probably would be left out if the mechanics were to get their way, but if a so-called union won't work for all it's membership regardless of their skill or job, it ceases to be a union per se but becomes a clique. That's what I have little tolerance for.
Very little is gained but much is lost by further dividing the workers' ranks, but many of the self important want to do exactly that, simply to show how "special" they are; an old fool told them a few years ago the separation of workgroups would free them from the rabble and get them a better deal. We all saw how that worked out.
It's a shame, but the seeds have been planted and the class warfare will continue. Divide and conquer works quite well for the company - don't you think? It even works better when the workers' "representation" helps the company.
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All of that may well be true, but I'd still like to hear about a plan if there is one that doesn't involve tolerating incompetent and unaccountable "leadership".
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<_< --------- Hell Informer! For a long time, I thought I held that title!!!
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I was always under the impression that "machinist" was considered to be higher skill level than a mechanic.
Yea, they did get a better deal, not as good as they thought but if you compare pay rates I think you will find that mechanics hourly rates are higher than in 2001 but I dont think the same is true for some of other classifications in the TWU.
AMEN! I went to school and WORKED MY TAIL off to get into this industry. I jumped through all the hoops to become an AMT with no guarantees I'd make it. I took the risk that I'd fail, or that once getting my license I wouldn't be able to find a job.
I knew all the risks and responsibilities that came with this job but I accepted them because I felt I would be well compensated.
Well thanks to circumstances beyond my control. I'm now stuck with the worst labor contract I've ever heard of, with no end in sight. For almost six long years now, I've been stuck in a so-called OSM position. Which means above and beyond what we all had to give up, I and those like me have also lost over 65,000 additional dollars. And again, no end in sight. True lots of folks hit the street, and have my sympathy. However at least they know (or should know) they're not coming back, and can move on with their lives and find better careers.
As for me and lots of others I've spoken with...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! No more "Working Together", while incompetent corporate leadership steers us onto the rocks while stuffing their pockets with the money we have given up. Then the same people who've got our money protruding from their pockets tell us.."Sorry, times are bad, no money for you!"
Does anyone think this is going to change without drastic action? I say let's go for it.
Either we get restore and more, or we walk. So what if we never come back.
Better to have tried and failed than to just give up and give in. Better to live like men than cower like mice. And if we lose, we too can move on to bigger and better things. I'm ready, I just want to know I did everything I could here to make things better before I move on.
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I agree with DARRYL. The time for WAR is now! No more concessions! If a strike puts the company out of business, then so be it! The company is going to give us back what we have lost and more or else. I'm sick and tired of the sob stories coming out of centreport. BOO! HOO! HOO! We're broke and poor. BOO! HOO! HOO! Yet Arpey and the gang are raking in the bonuses. Restore and more I say!
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