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<blockquote data-quote="804 MOVING FORWARD" data-source="post: 957460" data-attributes="member: 37515"><p>How is our dues money &quot;going down the drain&quot; when it is being used to defend members who have been wrongully discharged or suspended?&nbsp; That is clearly a representational expense and the Union has an obligation to represent those members to the best of their ability.&nbsp; (Not to be confused with Tony D.&#039;s glaring lack of participation during Liam&#039;s arbitration!)&nbsp; How would you suggest our dues money be better spent?&nbsp; Higher salaries for the officers &amp; staff?&nbsp; 401-k contributions for those same officers &amp; staff to supplement their rather generous pensions?&nbsp; No...when our dues money is being used to bargain contracts, challenge UPS and defend the members who pay those dues, that money is being spent wisely.&nbsp; Can&#039;t you even make the connection that our dues money is being spent to protect the very members who pay those dues!&nbsp; I applaud Tim and the Executive Board for their proactive efforts to save the Health Fund and the Pension Plan.&nbsp; And I have no respect at all for Tony D. and his self serving cohorts who hid the problems that those plans were having just to try to get elected again.&nbsp; Our dues money stopped going down the drain the day they left office!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="804 MOVING FORWARD, post: 957460, member: 37515"] How is our dues money "going down the drain" when it is being used to defend members who have been wrongully discharged or suspended? That is clearly a representational expense and the Union has an obligation to represent those members to the best of their ability. (Not to be confused with Tony D.'s glaring lack of participation during Liam's arbitration!) How would you suggest our dues money be better spent? Higher salaries for the officers & staff? 401-k contributions for those same officers & staff to supplement their rather generous pensions? No...when our dues money is being used to bargain contracts, challenge UPS and defend the members who pay those dues, that money is being spent wisely. Can't you even make the connection that our dues money is being spent to protect the very members who pay those dues! I applaud Tim and the Executive Board for their proactive efforts to save the Health Fund and the Pension Plan. And I have no respect at all for Tony D. and his self serving cohorts who hid the problems that those plans were having just to try to get elected again. Our dues money stopped going down the drain the day they left office! [/QUOTE]

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