Originally Posted by gloopy

Its not as simple as that. In some cases TA's are sent to the membership when the MEC and NC know they will be voted down. Sometimes the MEC/NC want a no vote on a TA for political capital, and sometimes the NMB even demands it in order to make progress or to get released. Its a lot more politically expedient to point to a fresh super majority NO vote than to continually take the word of half a table full of the same people every day claiming to speak for several thousand.

And sometimes the MEC/NC is just wrong. Rubber stamping a POS just because its a TA is far from an automatic, mandatory predetermined conclusion.