Disaster policy without preferential treatment

TWU Local 100 is heading up the cause to send assistance to Haiti and needs our members to donate as much as they can. We are asking for donations of at least $10 dollars to the important cause of the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.

It was our recommendation then that there should be a disaster policy without preferential treatment to any race or national origin. However Samuelsen and TBOU forged ahead with the above.

We would like to take this opportunity and remind all of the Desmond Tutu fairness principle to relieve distress and suffering which states that if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Local 100 must have a common sense policy and an approach in dealing with ‘disasters all over the world’ in a measured way instead of preferential treatment to a certain country or region [like any other charity organization in the US does] there was a severe 8.8 earthquake that hit Chile http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/world/americas/28chile.html?hp and now Pakistan flooding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pakistan_floods

Here is our proposal; $39,000 for every disaster to any where in the world whether man made or a natural disaster. The Local 100 should be treating everyone equally and there should be a standard policy which is applied across the board and not have preferential treatment to Haiti alone.