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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1270239" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>TDU does a better job of informing members of day-to-day events than IBT and their "Vote No" campaign won solid improvements in healthcare from the TeamCare trustees that we probably wouldn't have seen otherwise. The carve outs (Western Conference/L177) really weren't that much of an improvement and aren't much to brag about. </p><p></p><p>They also put IBT on notice about the less-than-stellar contract they pushed by mobilizing people to vote it down and generated an enormous amount of pressure on the leadership. This is only the second contract negotiation I've been through and the difference between '08 and '13 were night and day. That's a good thing and they should have tried to build on it. Instead, they're (I don't mean to sound monolithic here by implying Fred Z., the L623 guys that narrowly lost their e-board election, and TDU are in complete lockstep here -- Local 89 has some legitimate issues they need to resolve, but the entire atmosphere is tainted..) holding up supplements over healthcare when that issue was already decided in the NMA. The L623 guys are probably the worst perpetrators of this from what I've seen posted online. </p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, the continued dragging out of the supplements is only serving to piss off the part-timers that don't really have an idea of what's going on. 90% of the PT workforce doesn't have a clue about TDU or the politics at play here; they just think "the union" isn't getting the job done and it's holding up "their" raise; while it's not as big of a deal for the FT guys, there are some folks that are in situations where that extra $10-15/week could make a difference. It's also forcing a number of retirement-age members from leaving, which would open up some FT jobs and high-seniority PT preferred jobs. Millions of dollars in H&W contributions that could be benefiting the TeamCare plan (and maybe even win some improvements for members working at other companies) financially aren't being made.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1270239, member: 42270"] TDU does a better job of informing members of day-to-day events than IBT and their "Vote No" campaign won solid improvements in healthcare from the TeamCare trustees that we probably wouldn't have seen otherwise. The carve outs (Western Conference/L177) really weren't that much of an improvement and aren't much to brag about. They also put IBT on notice about the less-than-stellar contract they pushed by mobilizing people to vote it down and generated an enormous amount of pressure on the leadership. This is only the second contract negotiation I've been through and the difference between '08 and '13 were night and day. That's a good thing and they should have tried to build on it. Instead, they're (I don't mean to sound monolithic here by implying Fred Z., the L623 guys that narrowly lost their e-board election, and TDU are in complete lockstep here -- Local 89 has some legitimate issues they need to resolve, but the entire atmosphere is tainted..) holding up supplements over healthcare when that issue was already decided in the NMA. The L623 guys are probably the worst perpetrators of this from what I've seen posted online. At the end of the day, the continued dragging out of the supplements is only serving to piss off the part-timers that don't really have an idea of what's going on. 90% of the PT workforce doesn't have a clue about TDU or the politics at play here; they just think "the union" isn't getting the job done and it's holding up "their" raise; while it's not as big of a deal for the FT guys, there are some folks that are in situations where that extra $10-15/week could make a difference. It's also forcing a number of retirement-age members from leaving, which would open up some FT jobs and high-seniority PT preferred jobs. Millions of dollars in H&W contributions that could be benefiting the TeamCare plan (and maybe even win some improvements for members working at other companies) financially aren't being made. [/QUOTE]
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