You damn right I can take jabs at the unions, for I am paying union dues to a local that cares nothing about it's members.
Our Terminal took up a petition to dump our steward with over 90 percent signing the petition, our B.A. refused to let us have a election, the steward has been in for 3 years and has done nothing to better anyone other than himself.
We took up a petition to change locals with 90 percent signing the petition only to be told " you are in our region, sorry"
After all the support we received from our local, we decided to cancel our drive contributions within a month we all received a letter from the b.a. that our dues have now gone up to 3 times our hourly wage and we are also being forced to pay into the ohio strike fund...whats this? ohio is 500 miles from us.
The next step will be decertification, I wonder if that will get hoffas attention, U.P.S. Freight Terminals decertifying.
With all our local has done for us, why not?
Karen