Originally Posted by
Timbo
I'm in contact with my Rep. quite often. He was not the rep during C2012, but prior to my vote, I did call my (then) Rep. and asked him lots of questions. I also called a member of the Negotiating comm and asked him a lot of questions.
I was not happy with most of the answers, but you can't make everyone happy. Turns out I'm in the minority, as are most of us here who expect more from our "Representatives".
I thought we settled much too low, and much too fast, oh, and we gave away some profit sharing as well.
Brilliant.
They told me the company opened with zero % raises.
I said, "You should have gotten up and walked out."
It seems nobody has ever said No to Richard. How do you ever expect to get back what we gave up, if you're not willing to stand up to him? Get on your knees and beg? How's that working so far?
Nah, I've never seen a company opener that wasn't a ridiculous insult. I would have stayed in the room and complimented management on their extraordinary sense of humor.
Here's the part that bothers me: Why don't we know what WE opened with? What did WE actually ASK for? Was it 20/40/20/20 and all RJ's gone? Was it 5/9/4/4 and only 35 more 70 seat RJ's? Our union refuses to say...even years after the contract is signed.
We simply don't know how aggressive or lame our union is in negotiations, because they refuse to let us know. To paraphrase what Timbo said earlier, it seems our union feels that the less info they give about how they do things, the less chance they can be held accountable.
Carl