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<blockquote data-quote="SandBagger" data-source="post: 1453154" data-attributes="member: 11242">Yep, The &quot;leaders of the IBT&quot; interpret a lot of things in peculiar ways when it suits an agenda.I have some &quot;interpretive guidance&quot; for you...And I think some of the Locals under pressure from their rank and file will agree...The fact that Labor Day is excluded for all employees in the Central Region merely indicates that it is set aside as most holy to labor and the blue collar worker.What it says more precisely is that all workers have contractual recourse on that day, unless of course their &quot;leaders at the IBT&quot; choose to rescind the option at some later date.That of course would be political suicide from a Socialist or Democrat perspective, and as we all know the Teamsters are the left hand of the Democrat party and will never do anything offensive in that arena. Those campaign contributions have to keep on flowing, and pissed-off members tend not to contribute to the party of choice when directed. No one is touching Labor Day, ever.One thing can be stated with certainty. With all the tension and mixed messages being slung around concerning this issue, someone somewhere is going to move this way past any bogus grievance hearing at some point. The final arbitor will likely be a federal agency, and I&#039;d love to be a fly on the wall when the union fat cats and the company mutually testify that they agree a holiday was never intended to be a holiday to begin with.Won&#039;t everyone be delighted with that revelation?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SandBagger, post: 1453154, member: 11242"] Yep, The "leaders of the IBT" interpret a lot of things in peculiar ways when it suits an agenda. I have some "interpretive guidance" for you... And I think some of the Locals under pressure from their rank and file will agree... The fact that Labor Day is excluded for all employees in the Central Region merely indicates that it is set aside as most holy to labor and the blue collar worker. What it says more precisely is that all workers have contractual recourse on that day, unless of course their "leaders at the IBT" choose to rescind the option at some later date. That of course would be political suicide from a Socialist or Democrat perspective, and as we all know the Teamsters are the left hand of the Democrat party and will never do anything offensive in that arena. Those campaign contributions have to keep on flowing, and pissed-off members tend not to contribute to the party of choice when directed. No one is touching Labor Day, ever. One thing can be stated with certainty. With all the tension and mixed messages being slung around concerning this issue, someone somewhere is going to move this way past any bogus grievance hearing at some point. The final arbitor will likely be a federal agency, and I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the union fat cats and the company mutually testify that they agree a holiday was never intended to be a holiday to begin with. Won't everyone be delighted with that revelation? [/QUOTE]

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