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Has IBT/CS been a wise steward of our pension?
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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 52952"><p>ups79, </p><p>I'll say this for sawman that at least he's willing to promote an idea that to be honest at least in the south is very widely popular and that is a UPS only employee union. In Atlanta 15 or so years ago UPS members were able to get a UPS only local and although the union leadership at the time did this as a political manuver if was widely popular but that leadership was voted out and the UPS local was collapsed back into the old local. To this day a wide degree of folks regret letting that happened but it opened many folk's eye that we could have our own union and this was accelerated with the pension cuts coupled with large dues increases. There is a growing element out there who feel like sawman and it continues to grow. I'm starting to see and hear talk of APWA at work and it's coming in with Feeder drivers. You may not like it but the ideas are starting to spread and the feeder drivers are the pony express of information so it's just a matter of time before the ideas spread out farther. Going into the 2008' contract and various IBT elections is great timing for this. Whether APWA is the perfect solution I can't say but you can bet dollars to donuts I'll use it like a baseball bat on our officials as we all should to at the least get IBT to do it's job overseeing our interests no matter what anyone else does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 52952"] ups79, I'll say this for sawman that at least he's willing to promote an idea that to be honest at least in the south is very widely popular and that is a UPS only employee union. In Atlanta 15 or so years ago UPS members were able to get a UPS only local and although the union leadership at the time did this as a political manuver if was widely popular but that leadership was voted out and the UPS local was collapsed back into the old local. To this day a wide degree of folks regret letting that happened but it opened many folk's eye that we could have our own union and this was accelerated with the pension cuts coupled with large dues increases. There is a growing element out there who feel like sawman and it continues to grow. I'm starting to see and hear talk of APWA at work and it's coming in with Feeder drivers. You may not like it but the ideas are starting to spread and the feeder drivers are the pony express of information so it's just a matter of time before the ideas spread out farther. Going into the 2008' contract and various IBT elections is great timing for this. Whether APWA is the perfect solution I can't say but you can bet dollars to donuts I'll use it like a baseball bat on our officials as we all should to at the least get IBT to do it's job overseeing our interests no matter what anyone else does. [/QUOTE]
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