Originally Posted by
ReadOnly7
I don’t disagree.
Who decides what “bad” is?
The answer seems pretty obvious as we get further into this thing.
I don’t want just ANY company proposal to be passed to us. I want the BEST that the NC can accomplish. If their best isn’t good enough, it should fail the ratification process. If you’re afraid that you might be in the minority when it comes to voting, what makes you think you’re still correct in suppressing that?
Also....when it comes to being called a “socialist”, we have plenty of guys here who want to hurry up and furlough the bottom 1750 BEFORE any CARES extension, so they can insulate from BK a little longer. That can only be described as SELECTIVE socialism.
We elect representatives to protect our collective interest, not one section of the seniority list. The union uses data from PDR’s, and more importantly, from direct contact with our representatives to determine what “bad” is. When you’re negotiating with the devil, his best case offer may not be something to even consider. If the BEST that the NC can come up with is complete garbage, it is their job to tell the company to pound sand and not subject the contract to the emotions of the mob. There is a reason that the founding fathers made the Constitution very difficult to amend. It was to protect the integrity of the Constitution (the contract in our case) from the passions of the mob and to allow cooler heads to prevail. We elect representatives for the same reason.