In mid May AZStarnet reporter Becky Pallack identified that the union is in a long-term membership slide. I then looked over the LM-2 filed by the union for 2007 and noted just how bad the situation is within the walls of 369 West Ajo Way. They’ve had over a month to make a rebuttal to my claim about their minority status at RMS.
Their silence is like a piercing scream of agony coming from the halls of the Old Pueblo Lodge. It’s tantamount to an admission of their impending doom within the factory at Herman’s Road. To those who have had altercations with militant union members, find solace that the bullies will soon have to reject the kool-aid of envy and anger, and they will reform as good workers within our plant. They’ll have no choice.
To those union members who are distraught over the news that you are going adjust to living without the lodge’s representation, please accept my heartfelt open arm welcome to the rest of the team. We have been waiting for you to come around. As you begin to accept your new surroundings the rest of us will encourage you lighten up and get into the groove. We enjoy making the worlds finest missiles.
Those angry feelings you hold toward us will go away in time as you distance yourself from the hurtful messages coming out of the orators of despair. The free choices you wanted, but the union forbade, will make your dismissal of the old ways much easier. Those days will be gone. A few tyrants told you what you stood for, and made you give up good things for the collective. There may even be a Cumbaya moment where I could invite my old steward out for a beer! OK!!...I know…we’re not there yet…but can you imagine -- Whirled Peas?
3 comments:
It is hard to refute the truth. As more and more of our fellow hourly employees who are current members in IAM933 see this is the first shot in a battle that will last the next year, they will begin to understand.
We must be diligent in providing the REAL facts and information needed, not only for our hourly colleagues, but for our supervision and management also.
It appears the union is blind-sided again with facts. They are as silent now as they were during contract negotiations. Truth will prevail over union propaganda. BRING BACK OUR RONA!!!!!!!
"Bring back our RONA!"
I'm not sure it's that easy.
If you'll note, there's not ONE member of IAM933 that's available to refute the facts and information given on this and other web pages and blogs. Why is that? Is it because it's essentially true?
IAM933 refuses to drag this into the open because the glaring light of truth is beginning to leak through the union hyperbole of "Defending our Freedoms Defending our Jobs" and other such slogans.
RONA and all of those other perks (9/80 work week?) will come when all of the hourly workforce has that opportunity. This union has done little for the skilled workforce we are for over a decade. Isn't it time to consider a change?
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