Its interesting that in the court case to be heard on July 2 one of the issues is whether or not Jim Little has the right to impose a five year agreement upon members to which he is completely unaccountable to.
It appears that despite what the Constitution says, despite the little Welcome to the TWU brocheure and what representatives have said in representational debates that the TWU feels that not only should members not be allowed to vote on who has control of interprertation and enforcement of the contract but that you should not be allowed to vote on it if they feel its better. Never mind the fact that the person making that decision does not work under those terms.
Where is the Democracy?
Where is the accountabilty?
Why do we tolerate this?
We pay Little to not only encourage us to take pay cuts, while he continues to collect over $140,000 per year, but to also take away our right, as per the Constitution, to vote on our contract.
Over the years we have always been told that the Union would never impose a contract without it going to a vote of the members, yet they are doing it. We were also told that all letters of agreement were approved by the Presidents council.
It seems that such rights and policies are only for debating against AMFA use.
The first vote was completely flawed, pin numbers were not random and since employee numbers were easy to access then so were the pin numbers. Perhaps thats why this vote was according to the TWU the highest ever. How many votes were changed or cast by someone with a list of employee numbers? Since many union officials, who would not be losing 17.5% or Holidays or vacation, or face reelection since they are appointed were eligible to vote and therefore recieved a pin number how can it be determined that they did not fix the vote? All they would need, which they could easily get is a list of employee numbers. Who ever heard of an election where you can change your vote? For what purpose was this option put in? When you consider the fact that it was easy to determine pin numbers, the underhanded techniques that Little used to put in this unique voting process and the extrordinarily high returns there is certainly cause for doubt over the integrety of the vote.
Any way, it does not really matter, the problem is fixed, from now on Jim Little, sitting in his new car (is that part of the $345,000 that the TWU spent on cars last year?), collecting $140,000+ a year will determine what you are worth. You however will never get to do likewise. I guess when Sonny Hall said that we will never use that system again he meant voting! Silly me, I thought he meant this sequential pin number, any one can change your vote, only some get to vote, AAA debacle.
It appears that despite what the Constitution says, despite the little Welcome to the TWU brocheure and what representatives have said in representational debates that the TWU feels that not only should members not be allowed to vote on who has control of interprertation and enforcement of the contract but that you should not be allowed to vote on it if they feel its better. Never mind the fact that the person making that decision does not work under those terms.
Where is the Democracy?
Where is the accountabilty?
Why do we tolerate this?
We pay Little to not only encourage us to take pay cuts, while he continues to collect over $140,000 per year, but to also take away our right, as per the Constitution, to vote on our contract.
Over the years we have always been told that the Union would never impose a contract without it going to a vote of the members, yet they are doing it. We were also told that all letters of agreement were approved by the Presidents council.
It seems that such rights and policies are only for debating against AMFA use.
The first vote was completely flawed, pin numbers were not random and since employee numbers were easy to access then so were the pin numbers. Perhaps thats why this vote was according to the TWU the highest ever. How many votes were changed or cast by someone with a list of employee numbers? Since many union officials, who would not be losing 17.5% or Holidays or vacation, or face reelection since they are appointed were eligible to vote and therefore recieved a pin number how can it be determined that they did not fix the vote? All they would need, which they could easily get is a list of employee numbers. Who ever heard of an election where you can change your vote? For what purpose was this option put in? When you consider the fact that it was easy to determine pin numbers, the underhanded techniques that Little used to put in this unique voting process and the extrordinarily high returns there is certainly cause for doubt over the integrety of the vote.
Any way, it does not really matter, the problem is fixed, from now on Jim Little, sitting in his new car (is that part of the $345,000 that the TWU spent on cars last year?), collecting $140,000+ a year will determine what you are worth. You however will never get to do likewise. I guess when Sonny Hall said that we will never use that system again he meant voting! Silly me, I thought he meant this sequential pin number, any one can change your vote, only some get to vote, AAA debacle.