We Should
10-25-2009, 12:29 PM
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When you speak with other Unions such as the Steam fitters, Plumbers or Carpenters unions they all say the same thing. You start negotiations long before your contract expires not long after the way AME does it. Your union reps should start pushing management to the bargaining table long before your contract expires.Why do successful unions do this, so that they can get a feel for what management is thinking long before their current contract expires. If management stalls negotiations you demonstrate, you make management uncomfortable with any means possible. You don't tell your membership that the negotiating committee met 12 times insinuating that negotiations are well under way. Cheryl is spewing more pure garbage trying to mislead the members into thinking that she has our best interests in mind. Well that's pure crap. The 12 meetings she mentions were between our negotiating team (what a joke that is), no one that represents Levys team were ever at any of those meetings so whats the point. Cheryl will tell you that these meetings are necessary to establish strategy and to get feedback from the members, well that may be all true but why wait until the contract is expired for the better part of a year to start. These tactics that Cheryl uses to negotiate our contracts are wrong. Either she is in Levys pocket or she is completely unqualified to secure a fair contract. I have to believe that she is in his pocket and this is why. First and foremost... how can she state she is doing everything possible to protect her members when she allows Levy to piss all over us by demoralizing the workforce with threats of layoffs, the decimation of the county workforce by not filling vacant positions that are currently funded by clueless taxpayers. I'm not talking about a few empty chairs, my office is turning into a ghost town. Why does Cheryl give away benefits without asking the members their feelings concerning matters that concern their paychecks?
Why haven't we demonstrated against Levy? Why is it that Cheryl does nothing to get Levy to the table, why don't we surround the Dennison building the way we did when we had Charlie Novo running this union. I was there, there was the strongest feeling of solidarity at those demonstrations. Remember "JUMP HALPIN JUMP" Soon after we where getting 2 steps per year. Salaries and moral where at an all time high when we had solid leadership and real unity. If nothing else Cheryl has been very successful in dividing this union. We are the laughing stock for managements amusement, I wish you could hear them as they laugh behind our backs.. Please think about this.Cheryls record is horrible. The last contract we got we voted on without knowing the full terms (new employees got shafted good) and because we wait so long to start negotiations we get to give away the first year of the contract. That first year of 0 % is Cheryls gift to Levy, get ready if we stay with Cheryl we will give Levy 2009 also. What did Levy do for Cheryl to cause her to sell us out, who knows we will find out when it's all over. People like Teabag can praise her all they want, the truth of the matter is so plain to see when all you have to do is ask yourself WHY did she continuing to let contract negotiations sit on the back burner and never heat up? Because she is in Levys pocket and does not want to upset her little friend !! Go ahead teabag, it's your turn to spin your bullshit, please explain why Cheryl has done NOTHING but give it all away for the past several years, oh and I hear the open meeting Tuesday night is going to be very interesting.
When you speak with other Unions such as the Steam fitters, Plumbers or Carpenters unions they all say the same thing. You start negotiations long before your contract expires not long after the way AME does it. Your union reps should start pushing management to the bargaining table long before your contract expires.Why do successful unions do this, so that they can get a feel for what management is thinking long before their current contract expires. If management stalls negotiations you demonstrate, you make management uncomfortable with any means possible. You don't tell your membership that the negotiating committee met 12 times insinuating that negotiations are well under way. Cheryl is spewing more pure garbage trying to mislead the members into thinking that she has our best interests in mind. Well that's pure crap. The 12 meetings she mentions were between our negotiating team (what a joke that is), no one that represents Levys team were ever at any of those meetings so whats the point. Cheryl will tell you that these meetings are necessary to establish strategy and to get feedback from the members, well that may be all true but why wait until the contract is expired for the better part of a year to start. These tactics that Cheryl uses to negotiate our contracts are wrong. Either she is in Levys pocket or she is completely unqualified to secure a fair contract. I have to believe that she is in his pocket and this is why. First and foremost... how can she state she is doing everything possible to protect her members when she allows Levy to piss all over us by demoralizing the workforce with threats of layoffs, the decimation of the county workforce by not filling vacant positions that are currently funded by clueless taxpayers. I'm not talking about a few empty chairs, my office is turning into a ghost town. Why does Cheryl give away benefits without asking the members their feelings concerning matters that concern their paychecks?
Why haven't we demonstrated against Levy? Why is it that Cheryl does nothing to get Levy to the table, why don't we surround the Dennison building the way we did when we had Charlie Novo running this union. I was there, there was the strongest feeling of solidarity at those demonstrations. Remember "JUMP HALPIN JUMP" Soon after we where getting 2 steps per year. Salaries and moral where at an all time high when we had solid leadership and real unity. If nothing else Cheryl has been very successful in dividing this union. We are the laughing stock for managements amusement, I wish you could hear them as they laugh behind our backs.. Please think about this.Cheryls record is horrible. The last contract we got we voted on without knowing the full terms (new employees got shafted good) and because we wait so long to start negotiations we get to give away the first year of the contract. That first year of 0 % is Cheryls gift to Levy, get ready if we stay with Cheryl we will give Levy 2009 also. What did Levy do for Cheryl to cause her to sell us out, who knows we will find out when it's all over. People like Teabag can praise her all they want, the truth of the matter is so plain to see when all you have to do is ask yourself WHY did she continuing to let contract negotiations sit on the back burner and never heat up? Because she is in Levys pocket and does not want to upset her little friend !! Go ahead teabag, it's your turn to spin your bullshit, please explain why Cheryl has done NOTHING but give it all away for the past several years, oh and I hear the open meeting Tuesday night is going to be very interesting.