I’m blaming the IBT for wasting the greatest leverage we will ever see in our careers by letting Andrew act as a mob boss; I’m blaming the IBT for wasting half of 2025 by asking to be released because they had “connections” at the NMB (direct quote from union earlier this year); I’m blaming the IBT for putting Untersheer as our trustee and letting him use us as pawns; I’m blaming the IBT for keeping us in a trusteeship for almost two years (two critical years without any elections).

hope is not a strategy but that is all Untersheer and his cronies did for the past 1.5 years. Hope for a new mediator to pressure management (didn’t happen); hope for Deidre and NMB to pressure management or release us; hope for attrition to kick back up so IBT could regain leverage.

What they are not doing is getting a deal done.

I could go on but I think you get my point.