Originally Posted by rube

Lots of labels here, but no refutations, and no rebuttals of the subject's history. Interesting.

Promise the moon. Create scapegoats. Make bigger promises than your enemies. Lose at the table, and get jammed by a third party. Blame the scapegoats. Repeat.

Malone writes the simple truth. If you want the full spectrum of section six, we need to accommodate the legitimate business objectives of the company. Whether you want a market based deal, or release to self help, you're getting neither without that element. You need to show that you're serious about the deal, or the mediator simply won't play with you, and time will stand still. Like it is right now.

The council comms since then have shown that the reps are scared of the Orange Crush. They either write NOTHING, as C44 has chosen, or they double down on stupidity, and treat the opener like a suicide note, as seen in the shrill and juvenile rants of C1 and C66.

I had hope for Malone. I knew he was sharp, and could get a TA that would pass the membership. Any TA he could get will probably die on the table during this week's MEC meeting, all to appease the Orange Crush and serve the ambition of a few reps who have done nothing to put money in our pockets, and at present are taking money out of our pockets with their willful ignorance.

Pander. Slander. Promise the moon. Blame Moak. Get re elected. Repeat. It's been working since 2008, why stop now?