Originally Posted by
D Mantooth
You're welcome.
IF anything in Section One changes, it won't be due to the grievance settlement. That settlement must stand alone, and cannot affect the PWA.
I have no idea if Section One in the TA includes any changes. Nor am I making any predictions. I'm simply answering the question posed. If there are changes to the PWA, they cannot be done by the MEC Chairman in the settlement process.
To illustrate that, if the TA fails, Section One will remain as is. The JV settlement will not change it.
Just to be clear, if this grievance settlement does NOT include an agreement to get back above the JV minimum and a timeline to do so, that represents a permanent reset of our scope. If the company decides to stay in violation again, we grieve it again and they pay us again. That's the new legal precedent. The only way that's not the case is if this grievance settlement includes a remedy and timeline. If there was, the MEC administration would have said so. They didn't. That's why I'm quite certain there is no such remedy or timeline.
We shall see.
Carl