Like I said before, you can spin it however you like, you just assume these furloughed folks will participate---but the truth is NMB elections are very hard to win as they stack the hand in the companies favor---I just hope if you are able to launch an election---you can live with the results.....
Jimmy,
Where's the spin?? The only spin I have read is from your post preaching gloom and doom about a situation that simply does not exist. We are not just talking about an election but the type of election.
The simple truth is that in all elections that involve union raids with all the workers under contract, only one time in the last 10 years has a group [skycaps] voted out its contract. In this type of election, success rate is 99%.
And these elections are quite common. Presently, there are several union raids taken place just in the airline industry. Offhand I know of the IBT raiding the UA mechanics, and USApilotsomething raiding ALPA on this property. The way I see it, we can lay down our rights and continue having a United Airline Board of Director & Parker's boy represent us, or we can attempt to change it.
Further, the westies voted in union [1998?] with a 54% result even without a contract in place. To suggest they would have less participation now is unfounded and doesn't make 'good sense'. Also, over 60% of the east siders voted in union [1994] even though they didn't have a contract, it just doesn't make 'good sense' to suggest that all of the sudden people want to trust Parker. Do you think PHL would vote union out? PIT? TPA? CLT? LAS? Which station loves Parker? I doubt there is one. I mean, where would all these no voters be coming from?
BTW, the contract vote had a very high participation rate, for a contract ratification vote. Systemwide, the % of those eligible to vote was over 50%, even though the IAM didn't put out notice to alot of stations.
Nobody is spinning anything.
regards,
