Rhetorical questions incoming….Isn’t it the goal of the CWA to negotiate a suitable contract for its members? If the members vote it down, what does that imply?
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Ratify before the Trump
Musk team comes into power. They hate union members
That implies Democracy something that may be hard for those living inside a critical environment to understand.
When the CWA presents a TA to the members, aren’t they saying, “We’ve been fighting for you and this is the best we could do. “ Which, BTW, they always encourage members to ratify.
After the members vote it down, they’re saying, “You failed to represent us and give us a reasonable agreement. “ So what do we do now, negotiate in perpetuity? I say again, the union only exists to perpetuate the union. Members are being played.
If the company continues to bargain in bad faith then a ULP strike will occur, charges were filed on Sept. 5th
For the glory of Stankey, all hail Stankey
A majority down vote means the membership wants their bargaining representatives to re-negotiate articles, MOA, language, terms, etc.. that they don’t agree with in the “tentative agreement”. It doesn’t become a ratified contract until membership votes in the affirmative, no matter how many times it takes to re-negotiate. Part of the collective bargaining process, happened before and will happen in future contract negotiations.
It isn’t a top down authoritarian system, like Stankey’s world. The company negotiators are his puppets.