While i don't love the terms , i accept them .
We’re back to square one , near as I can tell that’s pretty much the same TA we had before going into arbitration and LOSING …. Oh and by the way back THEN the price of gas wasn’t hitting new highs and the us economy wasn’t flushing its’ self down the tubes .
What are you East guys expecting is going to happen here ? How long have we been negotiating ? Tell me , as time progresses and this company continues to lose money in the next few years , do you think that will make them anymore likely to raise our pay beyond this offer ? Tell me as we will have more and more scabs hanging around in this country because the unemployment rate is gonna go up up up and away , do you think it would be prudent of us to strike ?
Do I love this deal ? no , I would rather not give up the field stations , but this is a matter of survival and while many of you claim your going to reject it , without the self interest of the COC blinding everyone , I think a good many will ask themselves “do I want to possibly continue working until 2011 without a raise ?†Some say GAS is going to hit 4 dollars a gallon this year , they might be right … I notice some of you on here are already down playing the very REAL possibility of recession , see how grand life is going to be when inflation starts to rise and your still making 17 something an hour , oh and did I mention the price of EVERYTHING will also rise ? ohhhh I’m trying to scare people with DOOM AND GLOOM … geez just log onto CNN and read the business section !!!!!
The only people who are going to come out ahead are going to be on the “new direction “ slate , that’s right , their about to become the new 100K club , and guys , you sure could dish it out , I hope you can take it too , because if this contract doesn’t pass the bucks going to stop with you . Of course thou , how much can one care about the little man when their making 100 K a year right? Recession , what’s that ? ….. look it’s not that I have something against the new direction slate , I don’t except for the simple fact that I believe your so far out there that you won’t be able to get anything accomplished anytime soon .
Brothers , sisters , people are going to try and parry most of my arguments by brining up your old friend CHANGE OF CONTROL , ah remember that ? your ole friend COC ? Wow how are you guys enjoying those huge backpay checks eh ? Snap out of it , read the court document , the arbitrator pretty much says the things been annulled , but don’t take my word for it , log onto our union website and read the PDF documents yourselves .
1 . The change of control has NO teeth , for those of you who are going to say other wise , I say to you , READ THE COURT DOCUMENT WHERE YOU LOSE .
2. The economy of the united states is heading south FAST , economic experts believe this will be a very bad recession .
3 . The new direction slat is full of hardliners , we have no section 6 , the company WILL not acquiesces to their demands . Without the threat of strike , we will have to wait until 2010 to strike at the earliest . Take a moment and ask yourselves ,how bad do you think things might get in the economy between now and then ? Are you going to be willing to strike during a period when you can be easily replaced because of the high unemployment ? doubtfull .
To our field stations I can only say that this is not the desired outcome that I would have liked to see , however , given the worsening economic climate in this country I believe that we have no choice but to accept this deal .
Freedom
