Maybe I'm out of touch and if so I'd appreciate somebody educating me. I think agency shop is a GREAT thing and I don't understand why anyone would want to go back to open shop. Under agency shop everyone pays for the administrative costs of executing our contract which means, no freeloaders like we had under open shop.

I'm not seeing the connection between our change in status (open to agency) and the perceived misdeeds of the MEC. Besides, changing the contract simply to "send a signal" is a very bad move. The contract is so much more valuable and important than that.