DallasConehead said:
Just tell me exactly what you have done for me lately other then take my money, trying to screw away any chance of a jcba, tied up my shares, done nothing to get my match, and your representation is nearly worthless on the field. Why do I bother with you people? Damn right, given the chance, and seeing your track record, no doubt I would vote to get out.
So your idea of a Union is where you sit back as an individual and expect other individuals to do everything for you? If you have a problem with me, and others feel the same our Local has a remedy for that, recall, we had in in 562 and I pushed hard to get it in there. I wrote up the motion and the Bylaw language, and after it passed we submitted it to the International who rejected it, I then dug into the Convention notes where it was declared that any Local has the right to put Recall into their bylaws and put that in our appeal, the International then allowed us to have recall.
So if your problem is with me then do something about it, but instead you would rather just sit back, suck up to management and blame everything on people in the Union (that you have a say in whether they remain or not) that you feel don't do enough for YOU. Because You don't like Me you say you would rather have No Union and subject yourself to the whims of Paul Wroble who demanded that the mechanics at NWA vote in a deal that not only slashed wages and benefits but required that half the guys vote to eliminate their jobs as well.
So what have we done for YOU Mr Conehead? What we have done is set up the most Transparent and Democratic Local that M&R has ever seen. We post our Financial Reports and minutes on line, we conduct voting online so everyone gets an opportunity to vote where now we see between 70% to over 90% of eligible voters vote on motions. We challenge anyone who tries to take away our members rights through either the Grievance process or the Court system. We have given every steward quick easy access to filing grievances by issuing every steward a Tablet where they can electronically file grievances online and research the issues. We now have an improved communications structure so that all our members from Boston to San Diego get the same information and they can see whats going on in other locations. You may not care about any of these things, but thats ok, cant please everyone but we believe that these things serve everyone in the local and will help us enact strategies that will allow us to combat further erosion and win back what we lost, and thats what its all about.
JCBA-thats being tied up by the NMB, and since it affects all of us (514, 567, 591) any action on that to pressure the NMB to decide has to come from the International, we submitted thousands of signatures back in August saying that we do not want the Association, that we expect the NMB to apply the rules as written, and those signatures came from 591 and 514.
Match-Once again, a grievance has been filed and that Grievance is the ATDs to move forward on. If you recall I spoke out very strongly against your buddy Dons language about "successful resolution of the 114 process " because I believed what has happened would happen. Did you vote Yes?
Shares- that is due to the lawsuit filed by former coworkers who took the bird in the hand and now want the two in the bush as well. Thanks to them we wont see those shares till the case is closed.
