First it was 1600 signatures. Now its 1200. You do know that it was dwindled down to about 4-500 signatures correct? Having multiple signatures of the same person and including non teamsters doesn't make your cause just. Hell, you guys even led people to believe it was supported by the local. And I know for a fact that people that supported the bylaws change will not vote for your slate. So the answer is yes. Matter for fact, like I said before, most of YOUR guys will be split. Nobody trusts the UA. Not even your own peeps. They may like one or two of your folks as a friend, but beyond that, this is their lives we are talking about.
This just made me realize something. I can't blame you for your ignorance. The people you get your information from go out of their way to hold a monopoly on every bit of information possible, and then feed you and the rest of their supporters with filtered information (Also known as LIES). I guess I could bust your balls about not being skeptical of receiving and spreading information without evidence, but I'm not going to do that. I hear ignorance is bliss, and I wouldn't want to ruin your day. But I will make you a promise. If (when) the UA slate wins this, I will let you know who I am and show your the evidence of 1,200 separate individual signatures, and answer any other questions you have truthfully, by providing physical, tangible evidence. Sound good?
And when your wrong? Full apology? Oops, forgot, you guys don't do that. How about you just vote for the Membership Slate instead. It sounds like your begging for them to withdraw. You did it in a few past post also. Pleading for them to split.
Tell you what. If I am wrong, I will absolutely apologize to you, in person. But when I am proven right (in a couple weeks I'd Imagine) You have to promise to run for steward when the UA slate sets up steward elections in your barn. The reason for that is, I have never met anyone that can look at a mountain of evidence against their argument and continue to argue talking points that have no basis more reliable than "jojo told me" in my life. If you can do to management what you are doing with me right now, (arguing constantly in the face of everything but forensic evidence against you) you will wear every manager in that barn down to a nub within a month!
Who is this PS guy anyway? What does he do for a living?
He works at RIH. But WHO is he? I can't answer that. That question can only be answered by the result of a conversation you have with him. You were AT the picnic, you should have stayed and met the slate so you can actually make an INFORMED decision in the election.
Oops, forgot, you guys don't do that...
That wasn't fair. You can still make an informed decision by going to 251unitedaction.com and reading their platform, then going to the membership slates website and compare.... oh, wait. Forgot. No website from the incumbent. Hmmm. How else could you inform yourself and make an educated, lucid decision this election...let me see...
OOH! I know! You can get a Platform flier from one of the 251 UA guys that are busting their asses campaigning at every barn in the local at different days of the week, and then grab a platform flier from the Membership slate and...damn, wait that won't work. No platform talk from the incumbents, probably due to that whole "Monopoly on every bit of information" thing.
Hmmm how else could we get you to make an informed decision? Let me see...hmmm. Too bad Amazon.com doesn't sell common sense, that might work, but nope, no luck there.
Hmmm...Well, you could look at their record of Job loss and lack of expansion of the local, but you don't believe all that. Jojo told you it wasn't true. Hmmm...you could look at the one organizing drive they have ever had over at allied. You know, the one that Hoffa had published in the monthly teamster magazine that you rub em out to? You could follow the timeline of that organizing drive they were so proud of, all the way to the decertification because Jojo and his pals were unable to get people who PICK UP AND SORT
TRASH for a living a better deal. Wait, you don't believe in the decert, I forgot. Jojo said its not true.
Oh I know, you could download the LM2's from the year before Jojo took power, and every year from that point until 2012, and watch in awe as the Locals funds have dwindled down to literally NOTHING. Then you could notice how their pay scales have steadily gone up every year to the point where they are voting Republican in every election to protect their wealth....that'd do it for most normal folks that are breaking their backs day in and day out for a bull**** 25 cent raise every year... but that won't work for you. Jojo says Money isn't everything, and you're lucky to have a job, right?
Wow, you know what? I'm at a loss. I have absolutely no idea how
you could make an informed decision in this election. Every possible way that I can think of requires you waking up and not swallowing everything you are force fed by Jojo and KR. But we both know that's not going to happen. I guess you have no choice but to be on the losing side brother. Sorry bout that.
