No...no...no

On the contract committee we would stress to move beyond the current position on appointing non members of TWU Local 100 which is not wise. We also believe this advice will fall in hard echo, but we would not agree to have non members in the contract committee before starting any stage of contract negotiation, or what those non members will do.

Again we will emphasize we would not be prepared to accept those non members in whatever capacity in the contract committee. We will not agree to John E Sameuslen president of TWU Local 100 Take Backward Our Union TBOU imposing upon us those non members nor will we surrender our right of not accepting them.

It is our purpose to retain the power and influence of the membership on the contract committee and not to dilute it. We wonder what is John E Sameulsen’s policy on this matter - we do not know to what extent those non members would have over our matters? Maybe they may have a say on our health coverage? We say no we would not agree to those non members to have any say that will effect us in the future. We do not want those non members to have any power, we say no..no.

Perhaps John E Sameuslen will give up the powers of members to those non members easily to total abolition of the membership. Perhaps he is incompetent on the contract negotiations that he would be delighted to hand over the full responsibility to the non members. Maybe Samuelsen is not competent on contract negotiations so yes Samuelsen would be glad to hand over the membership powers to non members. What is the point of being elected president and then handing over the power to non members.

We here in why did you join the union have no intention to extinguish or abolish the powers of the membership as Samuelsen has. Samuelsen must give assurances or will he give in on this matter that non members will have zero influence on the contract committee. We hope in the next election members who want to be elected will uphold TWU Local 100 powers and responsibility and not dilute the powers of TWU Local 100 - John E Sameuslen has surrendered some of them and in our view we have surrendered enough. 

The future of the membership should not be put in the hands of non members who were appointed by John E Sameuslen - we do not agree with that point of view. Samuelsen taking matters without consulting the membership is not the democratic way since the membership is being ignored. We find it hard to believe and it is obvious this is a backdoor for Samuelsen to usurp the powers of the membership.