Originally Posted by
DeadHead
Been trying to make this point for a while. We put our blind trust in the contract survey and then are dismissed from providing any input to our reps until we have the official "TA" language in place. My issue with this, as a member, is that how am I supposed to be giving feedback to my elected LEC representatives if all I have to formulate my concerns is based on hearsay, rumor, and conjecture?
You can give input to your LEC reps today, this hour, this minute. Why do you depend on "hearsay, rumor, and conjecture" to form your opinions? This "reducing PS" rumor may have some basis in fact, or it could all be internet pot-stirring.
Determine what is most important to you (internet discussion boards be damned) and provide input to your LEC reps accordingly.
Also, never forget you are one of 12,000 and we all have opinions, and we all can't share the same view all the time. That is what your MEC and negotiators have to deal with
before dealing with the company.
Last, I will never forget talking to a guy soon after C2K was ratified telling me he was going to "quit the union, because this new contract is so concessionary." Now the hindsight-is-20/20 view is that C2K was written on tablets and brought down from Mt. Sinai. Your union has to deal with that sort of perspective as well.