Old 09-29-2022, 10:04 PM
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bay982
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I agree completely.

It is also beyond frustrating that it takes YEARS to get a new contract. How did this become acceptable? The entire negotiating paradigm is ridiculous.

Before a contract expires, the union should have completed a new one, ALREADY vetted and approved by membership. We should have done all the legwork and be ready to go. We then submit it to the company. We have exactly one meeting with a mediator, during which we let him know that our offer is the minimum we’ll accept. This is our ask. There’s nothing to mediate. If it’s not acceptable we stop work as soon as the ‘cooling off’ period expires. Our current process of begging the company to meet with us four days a month is crazy. Why do we make time for work when they’re fine letting our pay be eaten away for years by inflation?

It’s insane that we wait years. SpaceX will launch 100 rockets during the time it takes us to complete a contract. And they’re doing, literally, rocket science.
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