I was checking my AA email, as a good employee should do, and there is an email from the TWU bad mouthing the IBT. Shouldn't union business be seperate from company emails, as I understand it, a company email system is monitored by said company.
Should a UNION communicate through a company email?
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Is there really a difference between company and union?
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I receive AMFA e-mails via my company e-mail address.
What difference does it make?
In fact we really wish for more communication not less.
And the TWU bashing the IBT is fine by me.
You have a choice to read it or not.
You also have choice to designate sender as junk mail and it will by-pass your inbox.
The last thing you want to do is restrict union communications.
Careful watch you ask for, you might get it.
What difference does it make?
In fact we really wish for more communication not less.
And the TWU bashing the IBT is fine by me.
You have a choice to read it or not.
You also have choice to designate sender as junk mail and it will by-pass your inbox.
The last thing you want to do is restrict union communications.
Careful watch you ask for, you might get it.
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I can assume most everyone understands that the email is the companies. Its not
private and that the companies security can and will read your emails.
So my caution is that if you do use it, beware of what you do say, any negative comments toward the company and its officers, members of management can and will be used against you. That email also gets backed up on some type of media and some times copied to another server in case the primary email server goes down.
just beware, with all that is going on here at AA to jepordise your job for a comment not worth it.
private and that the companies security can and will read your emails.
So my caution is that if you do use it, beware of what you do say, any negative comments toward the company and its officers, members of management can and will be used against you. That email also gets backed up on some type of media and some times copied to another server in case the primary email server goes down.
just beware, with all that is going on here at AA to jepordise your job for a comment not worth it.
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If the union were sending FROM a company email list, you'd have a valid complaint.
But, there's nothing to them from sending email TO a company email address, especially if you've opted in to receive emails from the union, and the company permits you to receive non-company email on said address.
As for the reality of the company monitoring your email... they're only going to do it for cause.They might have a "bad word" filter that will alert an admin somewhere, but reading individual emails "just because they can"??
Sorry, email admins have more important things to do. And I suspect it's all outsourced to HP, and they could care less about stuff like that.
But, there's nothing to them from sending email TO a company email address, especially if you've opted in to receive emails from the union, and the company permits you to receive non-company email on said address.
As for the reality of the company monitoring your email... they're only going to do it for cause.They might have a "bad word" filter that will alert an admin somewhere, but reading individual emails "just because they can"??
Sorry, email admins have more important things to do. And I suspect it's all outsourced to HP, and they could care less about stuff like that.
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I thought we were talking about professional union communications, not having opininated discussions via e-mail. That is what this forum is for. Some are either too paranoid, or so quick to complain about the TWU, that they would shoot themseleves in the foot eliminating a great communication tool. SAD
I guess they would prefer one sided company manipulation.
I guess they would prefer one sided company manipulation.
I did not activate my company email. Just what I need another email account with another password. NO thanks. I'm good without it.
Don't need it. Just another way for them to monitor what you are doing or not doing.
They need to get a hold of me they can contact me at work through my supervisor or a phone call.
Don't need it. Just another way for them to monitor what you are doing or not doing.
They need to get a hold of me they can contact me at work through my supervisor or a phone call.
The thing is I never gave the TWU my AA email address, so either the company gave the union our company email address's or the union asked for and recieved our email address's. I'm thinking if the union wants to communicate with it's membership the company should be out of the loop, and the union should contact us through the contact info they have on file for each member. I highly doubt that if the APA wanted to communicate with it's members it's not going to ask for AA's help. Side note the APA got a 14% 401k match and the TWU got a 5.5% 401k match. The APA got a contract where 74% of the membership approved it, the TWU got a contract where 50.25% approved it.
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You didn't necessarily have to. I assume everyone's address is the same (ie john.doe@aa.com, or similar)? In that case, all the TWU would need is your name, which they obviously already had.
That said, I do NOT think that company email accounts are the right place for union communications. Informer's got a good point that it's likely to reach a lot more people than it otherwise might've, but still...
That said, I do NOT think that company email accounts are the right place for union communications. Informer's got a good point that it's likely to reach a lot more people than it otherwise might've, but still...
Obviously the TWU cut a deal with AA. A week or so ago Bobby Gless sent out an Email for the Presidents to forward out to their members that said "Unions-Email for all!", like it was a good thing. I challenged him as far as the wisdom in promoting the use of company email, citing that people have been fired for forwarding stuff on company email and that anything we send or receive on it becomes the property of AA, then we see the union sending stuff out to the members. We put out a warning on the local website on Jan 4, http://www.twu562.org/
If anything it just goes to show that these guys care nothing about the members and are more than willing to put their members in harms way if it suits their objectives.
