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79.6% voted. not bad. wish the 20% had taken the time

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Originally Posted by jetlaggy (Post 3714791)

79.6% voted. not bad. wish the 20% had taken the time

Tough to take 90 seconds out of one single day to cast a vote. 🙄

Makes it a little better if the ~190 retiring next month didn’t vote?

Another thought, from someone with only a short time here but a decent amount of time on the planet; getting ~80% of any group to do anything in unison, especially when the majority of the group are strong personalities, is a success.

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Originally Posted by J Van Vliet (Post 3715959)

…getting ~80% of any group to do anything in unison, especially when the majority of the group are strong personalities, is a success.

It is a success for the vote itself. We had about a 5-7% greater turnout than normal for this type of election and we can assume a decent amount of the early-outs purposely abstained for their usual reasons which suggests we might have been even higher.

However, we missed an opportunity to fire a dead on target message to the company on the eve of negotiations that a 95%+ turnout would have accomplished: that we are engaged and mean business. If we want an industry leading contract in this environment we can’t fumble these little opportunities; they all add up.