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<blockquote data-quote="Superteeth2478" data-source="post: 3570238" data-attributes="member: 73024">You&#039;re right, I am paranoid, but at the end of the day, it&#039;s a worst-case scenario that isn&#039;t completely implausible. Do you have any counterpoints? It&#039;s all a valid scenario that is possible because of the language in the IBT Constitution. I know it&#039;s beating a dead horse, but look at what happened with the last contract and the locals that were holding out due to issues they had with their local supplemental agreements. I&#039;m sure you had your lines defending the old guard for their actions (I don&#039;t know what they were, but you can state them again if you&#039;d like to edify me), but it just didn&#039;t look right to me.Surely Hoffa knows the membership doesn&#039;t approve of his actions any longer, seeing as how he lost the U.S. vote for IBT president. Why would he be motivated to give us a good contract before he checks out? Money talks, and UPS has a lot of it.And to Gumby&#039;s question, if we do walk, what do you think are the chances the IBT will allow us to continue the strike until UPS cries uncle?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Superteeth2478, post: 3570238, member: 73024"] You're right, I am paranoid, but at the end of the day, it's a worst-case scenario that isn't [I]completely [/I]implausible. Do you have any counterpoints? It's all a valid scenario that is possible because of the language in the IBT Constitution. I know it's beating a dead horse, but look at what happened with the last contract and the locals that were holding out due to issues they had with their local supplemental agreements. I'm sure you had your lines defending the old guard for their actions (I don't know what they were, but you can state them again if you'd like to edify me), but it just didn't look right to me. Surely Hoffa knows the membership doesn't approve of his actions any longer, seeing as how he lost the U.S. vote for IBT president. Why would he be motivated to give us a good contract before he checks out? Money talks, and UPS has a lot of it. And to Gumby's question, if we do walk, what do you think are the chances the IBT will allow us to continue the strike until UPS cries uncle? [/QUOTE]

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