Membership voice

Do Local 100 membership have a voice under Samuelsen and TBOU? Does the membership have an input and is there room for discussion? You can answer that according to how Samuelsen and TBOU are behaving. They are just like Toussaint, now you may wonder is this the democracy that you envisioned? Probably not, maybe the membership was tired of Toussaint thus they voted for an incompetent.

Samuelsen and TBOU promised a lot that as a member you will gain protection from the unilateral authority of management. The management system is a hierarchical chain of command with management at the top as order givers and we workers at the bottom as order takers. As the order givers management has a wide degree of discretion in our work in matters related to discipline and discharge. 

We the workers should have a say in the work, and we do not accept this status of order takers. We must be able to dictate that no runs should be cut in a route, and run hours are reduced significantly, runs are moved from one depot to another and then chopped to bits and pieces. In addition the ultimate sacrifice the membership paid in lay offs. We can see clearly now that Samuelsen and TBOU are incompetent and the membership is left to fend for themselves. Management decisions are unchallenged by Samuelsen and TBOU on these matters except they resort to meaningless rhetoric.

We expect Local 100 to restrict the management or prohibit management practices of cutting runs, shrinking run hours, moving runs out of depots. It is clear that the management is practicing arbitrary job reassignment and discharging workers without cause. You members do not feel hopeless or despair by Samuelsen and TBOU going along with the management. Remember the future is ours remember to vote them out.

In our future we believe you the member would have an avenue to challenge management practices such as the above. In addition you would have an input into management decisions and a check on the management authority. It will be a union run by the membership voice.