700UW said:
You always take a strike vote when voting on a contract and if the contract was voted down and the stike vote approved you would have went on strike.
You are trying to misconstrued how things work.
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Oh?
http://www.iam141.org/ual.htm#4-19-05
At UA, D141 did strike prep and a vote PRIOR to ANY contract or 'final offer' vote.
As did CWA and AFA at US.
With markedly superior results. The 30 stations that got flushed? CWA still has their jobs in them.
Proof of the pudding, and all that.
In the end, the spin is an attempt at distraction.
If the IAM has done a good job, they should have no problem standing on their record before the membership, confident their good work will translate into member support.
By-the-bye, since the IAM is going to count the furloughed US members to inflate their total body count, so as to avoid an election and accrete HP fleet, will US furloughed members be allowed to vote on any future changes to the contract?
OR, is the IAM going to try to have it both ways?
Count them when it is beneficial, and ignore them the rest of the time?