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The negotiating committee may, with the approval of the
General Executive Board, authorize a strike of such
employer’s involved employees to maintain existing
standards, attain approved standards, or to protest unfair
labor practices of such employer, without any additional
vote. Does this explain better why there was no vote.
You might want to read a little further up the Constitution, Section 2(a) If a majority of the affiliated Local
Unions vote to participate in area, multi-area, national,
multi-employer, company-wide, or industry-wide negotiations
for an area, multi-area, national, multi-employer,
company-wide, or industry-wide agreement (hereinafter
“master agreement”), all involved affiliated Local Unions
shall comprise a multi-union unit, be bound by such vote,
must participate in such master agreement bargaining and
shall be bound by the agreement approved as provided
below. Upon completion of negotiations by any committee
designated as hereinafter set forth to engage in negotiations
of a master agreement, such agreement shall besubmitted to the membership involved in such negotiationsfor their approval or rejection as the final offer in
accordance with Section 2(d) herein.
It is AFTER this vote that you can strike, ULP or economic. If the members reject the contract, THEN you can strike "without any additional vote".
Section 1(a). When any difficulty or dispute arises
between the members of any Local Union and their
employers, it shall be the duty of the officers of such Local Union to use every possible means of achieving a settlement or resolution of the difficulty or dispute through the processes of collective bargaining.
My take on this is that either 28 or 174 wanted to show IBT that they have so much power to bring down a company at their will. They weren't as prepared as OHFL to carry on the strike and now they have painted themselves into a corner and hope that one of the ULP stick because if it doesn't, they will need to explain to IBT why and what they did but the biggest injustice is against the members. They were used as pawns in this game and they are the ones that will lose BIG. OHFL will go on, smaller, bigger, whatever, but they will go on, union admins and BA will, hopefully, still have jobs making $80k to $110k a year but the members will have lost their jobs. All because someone had an ego that needed nurturing.