Mr nelson. Can you please say how many union contracts you have negotiated? I was told you have not ever been in talks. Your honesty will be needed if you expect us to vote for you. my next question is how much of this overthrow is based on you wanted to be #1 and hate Delaney? Why do you say you know who I am? I have never met you. I do not own a district computer. A lot of people I work with know you because you worked with them a long time ago. They all say the same thing you want to be #1.
Ha ha, I never even put myself on a ticket because I didn't want to be number 1. Nonetheless, I owe it to myself and the membership to give it my best shot at this time, to carry the occupy platform and install a program and update this union into this century.
I know who you are, the same BLUTO that i signed you out on, on the district computer in my office. I think it was on one of our usaviation mimic pages on the airtran campaign or maybe vote iam. But you told me to sign you out so stop the crap.
Item 1: You, your boss DA, and Delaney's platform seems to be 'attack nelson'. Kindly review for us exactly what negotiations experience Delaney has? As you know he has NONE, zippo, and he's been prez for 4 years now and still has absolutely no negotiations experience. I'm challenging you to show me where he has actually negotiated anything. And BTW, what happened in US AIRWAYS negotiations last week? And if you want to BS about last weeks negotiations, then you better be ready to answer some VERY hard questions.
As far as what I have negotiated. Negotiations is all about leverage. The negotiations room is only the 'image of negotiations'. Negotiations and leverage are handled and built outside the walls of the negotiations table. Starting back in '99, Freiberger brought back a BS contract that did NOT include protections for catering. I led a national campaign to shut that contract down and initiated "The Big Picture" newsletter and fought Frieberger in the Pittsburgh gazette. We shut that contract down and forced REAL negotiations that finally secured catering. Today that translates into 450 jobs.
When on the district dime, I was primarily responsible for gaining leverage and getting 3,200 non union workers a spot at the negotiations table. That is negotiations! If me and my team didn't build that leverage, there wouldn't have even been a negotiations team. As a result of that leverage, those 3,200 workers are now set for the arbitration of their seniority. I was a part of a team that led to the UA ramp win against the Teamsters and that increased our leverage against UA management. That's all part of negotiations.
The opposite of increasing leverage is losing leverage. When we gained leverage at airtran, Delaney collars them and signs a no strike clause almost immediately. When we increased leverage for UA ramp, Delaney immediately gave up that leverage and abandoned UA talks and dumped the ramp into long drawn out transition talks. At hawaiian, he lost his leverage when he finally supported managements plan to pay part timers half of full timers and to bring in the anti union ready reserve from Delta. He also lost his leverage at US AIRWAYS when he decided not to arbitrate the national attendance policy but to instead argue case by case. And he continues to lose leverage everywhere. Again, please cite his actual negotiations experience, WE WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!
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