28 ordspråk av Gary Chaison
Gary Chaison
They almost see their job as a property right.
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They are trying to do an end-run around the union and go directly to the membership, ... They believe that what they're doing is acceptable to the membership, but not to the leadership.
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They don't want to ruin a good thing, but at the same time, they don't want to lose a good thing.
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They're also doing it in order to show if you go on strike, this is money you're going to be losing.
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They're doing it to appeal to the younger workers.
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This is a small union, and it doesn't have any allies, because it's kind of a pariah in the labor movement,
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This is not going anywhere, ... This is not going to be settled.
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This is payback time for AMFA. That's the way the labor movement is looking at it, ... Raiding is a sin, and [they believe] AMFA raided and won [by] saying it would never accept concessions. It'll be much easier for other unions to tell members that they must accept concessions if AMFA was killed for not doing it.
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This is probably as bad as it gets for a union leader. He's in a fight with no allies.
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Traditionalists didn't see any reason for it and saw it as a challenge to real collective bargaining. Over the years there has been a rethinking of this idea.
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What they've done is really almost jump-start reconsideration of health care benefits,
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Workers have got to be asking themselves, what do we have to do?
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[The strikers are on their own against] a very determined employer and a large pool of replacement workers, ... If things remain the same and continue on this path, then the strike would be doomed.
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