A good union that cares would have given members a choice long ago. It could have called a membership meeting and given everyone a chance to vote on the company's final offer. Instead, Local 3 leaders kept strikers in the dark and gave them no choice. Did it even show members the final offer?
That would have been the fair, humane thing to do, especially since the final offer included huge wage increases averaging 22%. Instead, the union played politics. It kept strikers out while its leaders cozied up to the Mayor and Governor and plotted to destroy Charter. It also spent millions of members' dues on a campaign to boycott Charter. It could have given that money to strikers.
The politics and money wasted on the boycott didn't work. The strike has no chance of success. The union is keeping strikers out of work on principle or because of a grudge against the company. We can plainly see how the union treats its loyal striking members. How can we possibly believe we would be better off by keeping this union?
We now have a choice. If we vote to keep the union, this fight will continue and we can't move forward in our careers. The company has kept us informed, the union doesn't tell us anything.
VOTE “NO" UNION