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<blockquote data-quote="10 point" data-source="post: 1614621" data-attributes="member: 52520">BUG, it (the enhanced C6 plan) is a good insurance plan. I&#039;m glad barns got significantly better coverage. Maybe it was just a few barns that weren&#039;t kept up to speed on all the changes (better or worse) but that&#039;s my gripe. Would all the details have changed the outcome? Obviously not but it would lessen the &quot;blow back&quot;.But trust and loyalty is built through respect and stark openness and that, I believe, is the fertile soil for anger and disbelief.Any honest poster can support obvious &quot;common sense&quot; issues if you have the info to compare it to.Poor communication is the catalyst for distrust when&nbsp; issues become heated and the healthcare wasn&#039;t the only negotiated issue in the first round of voting on the CBA that wasn&#039;t savored. Surgery is never pleasant no matter what the target goal may be and we have all levels of mentality associated with that thought.Are we a little spoiled? Some that don&#039;t do our job say yes, those hourlies (minus Upstate) that have been here awhile probably say no.The only thing we have in this union (or life) that should not change is full disclosure, and honest two way communication to the voting members on the major changes the company wants and how effectively we can achieve a compromise, if at all, with the total membership&#039;s needs.The local contract meetings definitely are step one but it was sublimely clear that the healthcare issue was the union&#039;s first priority and due to how it was handled (IMO) it looked like this was a sales job set up way before those meetings.There&#039;s no easy answer for what happened but it falls back to this one thing in many minds: Do you trust your leadership?You fill in the blank. Times are changing but openness and honesty can not or we can get way off course in a short time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="10 point, post: 1614621, member: 52520"] BUG, it (the enhanced C6 plan) is a good insurance plan. I'm glad barns got significantly better coverage. Maybe it was just a few barns that weren't kept up to speed on all the changes (better or worse) but that's my gripe. Would all the details have changed the outcome? Obviously not but it would lessen the "blow back". But trust and loyalty is built through respect and stark openness and that, I believe, is the fertile soil for anger and disbelief. Any honest poster can support obvious "common sense" issues if you have the info to compare it to. Poor communication is the catalyst for distrust when issues become heated and the healthcare wasn't the only negotiated issue in the first round of voting on the CBA that wasn't savored. Surgery is never pleasant no matter what the target goal may be and we have all levels of mentality associated with that thought. Are we a little spoiled? Some that don't do our job say yes, those hourlies (minus Upstate) that have been here awhile probably say no. The only thing we have in this union (or life) that should not change is full disclosure, and honest two way communication to the voting members on the major changes the company wants and how effectively we can achieve a compromise, if at all, with the total membership's needs. The local contract meetings definitely are step one but it was sublimely clear that the healthcare issue was the union's first priority and due to how it was handled (IMO) it looked like this was a sales job set up way before those meetings. There's no easy answer for what happened but it falls back to this one thing in many minds: Do you trust your leadership? You fill in the blank. Times are changing but openness and honesty can not or we can get way off course in a short time. [/QUOTE]

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