Originally Posted by
Starcheck102
As far as "divisions" go, I believe that there is always a noisy minority of the membership that will always vote against any TA; there's no pleasing some people...
That's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about MEC admin wrongdoing such as the signing of a TA that included an item specifically prohibited by the reps' direction. There's no "division" about that. It shouldn't have happened. The reps responded by throwing out the bad actors, but that doesn't solve the structural problem of no measurement capability of our MEC admins effectiveness.
Originally Posted by
Starcheck102
We are in an an auspicious position to begin negotiations, and I hope that our outcomes exceed even our abundant potential.
Wouldn't that be great? But who defines that "potential?" It should be the members of course, but we don't get to see what we think as a group. Our MEC keeps that from us permanently. We don't even get to see what our negotiators actually demand initially...only the concepts. Our MEC keeps that from us permanently.
Originally Posted by
Starcheck102
We can get to a better place contractually,
Now there's a lofty detailed goal that everyone can get behind!
Originally Posted by
Starcheck102
but we can't afford to pretend that tinpot populism can stand in for strategy.
Nor can we afford another disrespectful dismissal of our elected reps and pretend that tinhorn dictatorship can replace bottom-up representation.
Carl