Currently as all of you have noticed TWU Local 100 has championed City Council Blizzard hearings. Members are wondering what benefit those hearings are going to garner for them?
Ms. Christine Quinn the speaker of the New York City council has the intention to run for mayor of office in 2013 and John Samuelsen wants to help her accomplish that. Thus we are being blasted with endless stories of the blizzard hearings in the boroughs which does not return dividends to the membership. Even though Ms. Quinn has killed labor backed bill for $10 an hour for her to be desirable or even electable she has to side with Wall Street. As we all know Wall Street is not main street or blue collar but if she does not embrace Wall Street then her fate would be as Ms. Ruth Wyler Messinger (who was a real labor advocate) who was unsuccessful in her run for mayor in the 1997 election.
NYC City Council blizzard hearings are a great diversion exploited by John Samuelsen and his spin machine to distract the membership. However Samuelsen’s stagnation does enhance his fatigue to grow up from underneath which will be heard in the election of 2012. Samuelsen’s policies are flawed and short sighted thus harming the membership.
Now lets look at the blizzard you can call it a winter wonderland or a huge pain. Students for example were off from school which was welcome relief for them and who seemed to be having much more fun than the commuters. Now comes the allegations that ‘Sanitation workers, angry about job reductions, had deliberately staged a slowdown’ that Saturday Night Live felt to take a jab at the unions. Now there is a panel of a federal grand jury that has been installed maybe some will be indicted as blue collar.
John Samuelsen may call Ms. Quinn probably to ask her to intervene for those sanitation workers in the event that they have to appear in the federal courts. The bottom line is that those blizzard hearings did not provide dividend for the TWU Local 100 membership it just demonstrated additional short sighted policies of Samuelsen.
I just wondering what indication do you have that Samuelsen wants Quinn as Mayor? Has there been a endorsement?
ReplyDeleteIf you were paying attention during the last election period, Samuelsen and TWU PAC changed the game in Local 100 as far as political endorsements: they had E-Board members interveiw candidates and give reccomendations on endorsements. Then the entire E-Board voted on those candidates. A big chnage from what went on previously.
In fact the process now adopted by Samuelsen and TWU PAc is so clean and well thought out that in the primary election for controller, the E-Board went in a enetire different direction from the committees' reccomendation.
So politics in TWU has undergone a total and IMHO great transforamtion.
And you have a problem with that?
Also Lobby Day is coming up on I believe March 29.
Let's see more than words from you and some action Manhattanville.