The facts are what they are. Fleet was the first to capitulate in BK, when I asked Virella why he said "You guys have options, for my guys its "Will that be paper or plastic". That came from your leadership not mechanics. So don't bother with the crying about the difference in pay, you are still substantially higher than the option.
Yes they did force us to do it, we even filed a lawsuit against it. Yes I did favor Consolidation but if you recall it was for all groups, I was willing to give up my silo for the greater good but they deliberately structured it to make A&P's a minority on our own committee. All they did was remove the number of A&P members on the committee. If they had put all of Title II into the M&R Locals then yes I would be OK with it. The fact is NOBODY has as fucked up of a structure as M&R at the TWU, nobody in any union, even the rest of the TWU. This is by design, Littles design, passed on to the FSC dominated International who kept it in place. The fact is the Title II guys from 510 petitioned and it was OK'd by their President to join Local 591 but the International rejected it, Local 501 Title II guys also petitioned to join and their board rejected it.
So Sito is holding Alex's hand, he cant rely on the TWU M&R guys?
I didn't say they would remove Gary, I said if they did there would be a card drive the next day and they know that.
