I can see it my own hand.
The Association isn't the problem. We'd be worse off and further behind if it was a standalone union negotiating.
Your mind is made up so I don't think you'll have the ability to see things in any prism that isn't your own.
Most of the TA's are IAM language so we wouldn't even have the TA's we have today because a standalone would never agree to that.
The IAM would be working feverishly to get cards signed and maybe we'd have a bit by now, which would have further pushed back negotiations.
To think that we'd be done by now, like if the Company didn't exist and would agree to TWU language no questions asked is really ludicrous. Especially coming off negotiations that spanned from 2007 to 2012.
I get you don't like the TWU, but you need to have better arguments. Maybe that's reason all the drives haven't amounted to anything and you're still TWU.