Originally Posted by
ex9driver
This is what's going on. Teamsters National was not happy with the Eboard president and the pace of the negotiations. National decided to save the day and brought in a outside negotiator to take over negotiations. ( Some old former United guy). One of the Eboard members went rogue and together with National formed this new negotiating"Team" . The head of the team was this United dude. The team included some of the former negotiating committee members, but not the hard liners and included several new guys hand picked by National . They got this TA. The E board except for the rogue, was not involved at all in the negotiating or agreeing to the TA. Now they are under pressure from National to put this out to a vote and have decided to be neutral and let the membership decide. Based on what I am hearing it aint gonna pass. National hijacked the bus with help from an Eboard member, but instead of returning with a pot of gold they brought back fools gold and now everyone is really upset! Confusing but the truth!
Can you say "DFR"?
The IBT Airline Division is negating the ability of the Local 357 to govern per Article XXII of the IBT Constitution;
"The principal executive officer shall, in general,
supervise, conduct, and control all of the business and
affairs of the Local Union, its officers, and employees.
He shall have charge and supervision of all the officers
and employees of the Local Union including elected
Business Agents. The principal executive officer shall
also have charge of all labor controversies involving the
Local Union."
If the IBT Airline Division wants to hijack the negotiations they need to first recall the Local 357 President. They skipped that step, violating their own C&B's.