Originally Posted by
captnate702
You have no idea how bad the teamsters have been for us. We have had FOUR negotiating committees in 2024. Our MEC was kicked out of the union for stealing close to a million dollars from coffers. We are in emergency trusteeship and the trustee/czar is Greg Untersehe who is utterly incompetent. We don’t have a single elected leader in the union at this - they are all appointed.
this has not been your typical “teamster” dysfunction. This light years worse than you can imagine. The union drama has been at a level 10 for us since 2021. So thanks for your input but you frankly don’t know what you’re talking about.
this is as ignorant, stupid, and misleading as your comments typically are.
Being on our 4th negotiating committee is a company line you took straight from their emails, keep chugging that koolaid and see what you get. You damn well know as everyone else does that we have flushed the incompetence, the first 3 crews were Andrew loyalists and a crooked consultant tied to Andrew’s racketeering.
We have the most effective negotiating committee that we could get from this pilot group. And don’t forget we have 2 paid lawyers plus teamsters legal after we tossed that dumbass ambulance chaser that Andrew relied on.
You seem to forget that we are dealing with management that hates us and will drag this out to the last day, they play games designed to delay, frustrate, and divide. You know that by now because you’re not a new hire but you ignore it probably because you’re a management patsy.
additionally, this pilot group forgets that we lag 2 years behind our peers in the negotiating timeline. We were on a 5 year contract and they were 3. They all had a 2 year head start, we should expect to be close to the finish line once we’ve been in the process as long as they have. Anyone who thinks our management will give us something sooner out of the goodness of their hearts is delusional.
In the end we did it to ourselves by voting on a 5 year deal and not thinking about the ramifications. Just like we got ourselves into trusteeship by voting in a group of crooks and imbeciles. Anyone who voted for that and complains about trusteeship needs some serious introspective.