Originally Posted by
9easy
I think the thought process is, the next contract isn't any good if there isn't any way to enforce it, because the company will just violate it anyway.
The truth lies somewhere in between - the current contract is garbage, written with horrible ambiguities full of ways for misinterpretation. If this was ALPA, they would just copy+paste boiler plate language from existing contracts with best practices, but instead we are re-inventing the wagon wheel here in 2022.
Frankly, I am exhausted with the Exco bragging about how many grievances we file and telling me to file a grievance for everything - to what end? So my grievance can be arbitrated 3 years later when we lose? Exco is so worried about section 19 and being able to arbitrate but keeps losing arbitrations. A former union member told me we’ve lost six straight arbitrations. I asked him: “if the company is always blatantly violating the contract like exco says, why do we keep losing?” Something is not adding up…
I would prefer at this point the priority be getting a good deal done, not bickering about arbitration rules that are already established. When the surveys came back with resounding plea for work rules, it was for scheduling work rules, not arbitration rules. I’m sure the exco will tell me to just keep filing those grievances tho…