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<blockquote data-quote="Island" data-source="post: 1283660" data-attributes="member: 42417"><p>I have left out a few things intentionally because I know I am quite long-winded. Also I want to encourage other Texans to explain some issues as well, rather than just agreeing with my opinions.</p><p>I was at the meeting where the local announced the decert of Allied, if I remember correctly, and it was met with a lot of apathy. The officers were quick to assign blame to the membership for not helping them but were just as quick to forget it ever happened. Honestly it seemed to me like they didn't really care.</p><p>As for me, personally, I would have probably helped them out in some way had our local been doing more to get us more involved with organizing. I'm not going to go out on my own and figure out how to help those guys, I am already too stressed out with my own two jobs to seek more stress that is somewhat unrelated to me. And a small part of my brain keeps saying, "Let them get angry then form their own union, friend the IBT."</p><p>Back when Bell was on strike (well, a few times), I kept wanting to pull over and grab a sign. A couple of times I took their exit and drove by shouting encouragement while I was heading to work. There are a lot of other unions that are eager to help out other unions. It benefits the Writers Union to help out the Plumbers Union because if there are more strong unions out there then the Writers Union has to fight people a lot less to get its points across. It is another disappointment in my mind that the local never asked me to give encouragement to the Bell folks.</p><p></p><p>As for the BA's salary, some of that got leaked online a little while back. I'm not sure if a hacker was doxxing the local, as the kids say, but some of their salaries got out. I think most of them are too technologically inept to even realize it happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Island, post: 1283660, member: 42417"] I have left out a few things intentionally because I know I am quite long-winded. Also I want to encourage other Texans to explain some issues as well, rather than just agreeing with my opinions. I was at the meeting where the local announced the decert of Allied, if I remember correctly, and it was met with a lot of apathy. The officers were quick to assign blame to the membership for not helping them but were just as quick to forget it ever happened. Honestly it seemed to me like they didn't really care. As for me, personally, I would have probably helped them out in some way had our local been doing more to get us more involved with organizing. I'm not going to go out on my own and figure out how to help those guys, I am already too stressed out with my own two jobs to seek more stress that is somewhat unrelated to me. And a small part of my brain keeps saying, "Let them get angry then form their own union, friend the IBT." Back when Bell was on strike (well, a few times), I kept wanting to pull over and grab a sign. A couple of times I took their exit and drove by shouting encouragement while I was heading to work. There are a lot of other unions that are eager to help out other unions. It benefits the Writers Union to help out the Plumbers Union because if there are more strong unions out there then the Writers Union has to fight people a lot less to get its points across. It is another disappointment in my mind that the local never asked me to give encouragement to the Bell folks. As for the BA's salary, some of that got leaked online a little while back. I'm not sure if a hacker was doxxing the local, as the kids say, but some of their salaries got out. I think most of them are too technologically inept to even realize it happened. [/QUOTE]
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