Originally Posted by
PicklePausePull
How can you deduce that the NC and MEC have worked hard on this contract? This TA suggests quite the opposite. In fact, this TA is so bad, I would go one step further and call for throwing ALPA off the property, and the election of an in-house union. 2% of our pay and 98 hours a month to present us with this sub-standard TA after four years of negotiations. Pathetic!
I think we have already been down that road back in 1996. Good bye ALPA1 hello FPA. Three more years go by until FPA falls on its Fato and we get the parking lot deal.
Yes, those were the good old days. It took years to get ALPA here but the "NO Guys" (non-Union) wouldn't join. So we went into contract talks divided and weak. Didn't work out so well. Voted down that TA and some of the NO group started the FPA and pushed ALPA off the property. Well, the ALPA guys didn't want to join that FPA thing and we repeat the same thing all over. Fire the FPA NC Chairman, get a new NC Chairman, membership improves and progress starts to be made. We have a strike vote! Things are looking good and then the parking lot deal. Rinse and repeat and now we are with ALPA2, I don't want to see an FPA2.
No thanks. If this goes down we will need unity and focus more than ever. People will need to put the vote and hard feelings behind them and rally around the new MEC and NC. That is why name calling is not such a good way to get your points across. Your vote is yours and mine is mine, cast yours as you see fit. But when it's over, put your emotions behind and rally around each other and the union. But then I've been told I am "FYIGM" guy.