I heard last night in the hub that the company had made the second scope payment to the union, larger than the last. The money on the table is in the neighborhood of 4 million now, and another payment, even bigger, will soon put it in the area of 6 million.

They still want to use this as some sort of seed money for a retiree health care fund. Something that not all members favor, I can tell you.

The person I talked to asked a union guy why this was not made public to the membership. He said it had. My question is where?

This should be discussed and disclosed in the message line. Anything less, and it appears that the union is trying to hide our own money from us.

When the first payment came, the union said it was "small change". I assure you, this is no longer small change to this member.

When the union starts hiding stuff from its membership, it puts its own credibility on the line. The union needs to come clean on this now. This is not the time to lose the faith of the membership.