Originally Posted by
SharpestTool
Read what I'm saying and not what you want me to be saying. We can negotiate until the cows come home. We don't have to accept anything they're offering. We can demand whatever we want and as long as we have the patience and intestinal fortitude we can endure.
What we cannot do and what will not be tolerated is to bait and switch. We cannot agree to something and then back out because we changed our minds. It destroys credibility.
Find me an example where that has worked. Just one.
Well Tool. Seems like it's a problem that the NC, and to an extent the MEC created, if they have been agreeing to items we had told them not to in our collective surveys.
It is also obvious that if this TA is rejected, they will not be allowed to fix the problem they created.
Everyone, how long do you think it will take to conduct the appropriate recalls, elections, replace the MEC chairman, nominations for a new NC, select them, train them and resume talks? Honest question.
The reality of it is I'm sure it will take some time. The fact that we will still have PS and will not have agreed to concessions that we would likely have been immediately implemented takes most if not all of the sting out of it.