Originally Posted by billtaters

GK has done a lot of positive things over his career, your example above being one of them. That said, he also made the following comments on social media and in an anti-ALPA letter to Congress that he added his signature to:


A lifetime of positive contributions can be washed away or diminished by negative ones. In his statements above, GK is currently showing a lack of respect for those who have come behind him and are currently filling shoes that he himself once wore years ago (when he seemed fine with the mandatory retirement age). Was he "selfish" when he was young and junior for not attempting to raise the retirement age then, as he is currently calling his peers? Was he in need of a raised retirement age for mentoring his own inexperience when he was young and junior, yet "eagerly" sat silent and benefited from the existing system? Is it decent and selfless of him to be actively undermining our union for his own personal benefit?

He may otherwise be a decent and selfless guy, but the anti-union, disrespectful, obtuse, and self-serving behaviors he is currently displaying make it hard for me to have sympathy for the realities of his diminished reputation.