Originally Posted by
Cruise
The effort may be credible. The timing, however, is off. You're completely wasting your time. Let it go...it's not happening during negotiations. You will not get a new LEC prior to a new CBA. Guaranteed.
The "when" in question would be following the signing of a new CBA, not a moment before. Until that moment, you're doing nothing but wasting everyone's time.
The problem is that these guys need a local before a new cba in order to throw a monkey wrench into negotiations which apparently is their goal because they want NC change above all else. It will never happen but if it did, it would seriously set back negotiations. There is nothing of substance they can do right now to force a new local. It's just like the petition, a lot of noise, no teeth. I think the best course of action - difficult as it may be - is to ignore them until after a cba is reached. Until then, they are just a distraction.