Originally Posted by
Flytolive
The company has flouted the UPA for three years and now we are extending it for two years without any added enforcement mechanisms and minus the leverage that brought them to the table. Except for the great work by the grievance folks the MEC has done little to enforce the contract. The company will see this extension as a license to continue to ignore their contractual obligations.
Do you think going through the long painful process of negotiating a new contract will somehow result in the company honoring a new contract when we both agree that they don't honor the current contract?
I'd call that a Pyrrhic Victory except that it would be a decisive defeat for us. A more apt comparison would be us as the Confederacy at Gettysburg and all of our work on a new contract would be Pickett's Charge. Or the MEC Chair as Gen Custer just prior to The Battle of Little Bighorn.
If the company isn't honoring our current contract, I don't see them honoring a better contract. We need to fix that - it will take time, which the TA buys us.