Organizing new members

This is one of the most important activities for the survival of any labor union, however TWU Local 100 under Samuelsen and TBOU are neglecting this vital activity. 

Samuelsen’s propaganda machine would blame the rank and file for that, instead of holding the employers’ feet to the fire which the local needs in order to replenish its ranks. We have become a subpar union from the once mighty and desirable union in the nation that we were.

That’s what others think of us, the others who choose not to join us. After all why join and do 25 years while you can go to other civil service positions and do 20 years. We will never be apologists for the sorry state of the union here, we will be critical of Samuelsen and TBOU. We would move heaven and earth to try to fix this situation and in the future we will succeed.

We will attack the status quo and the membership is behind us. Since Samuelsen took control, our local membership has declined with lay offs. No one is fooled anymore by the wild claims of Samuelsen’s unimaginable tales. Local 100 now has lost its national allure even those tales from Samuelsen’s propaganda machine are meaningless. When the lay offs came anyone who was smart would hedge his bets.

Moreover our boss’s intransigent behavior has made it clear that he does not believe in Local 100. That’s why he has undermined the stability of the Local 100. Disgracefully  Samuelsen has facilitated this outrage with his acquiesce. Our employer must hire new employees for optimal level of employment instead of having an abundance of overtime. In addition our boss cannot talk on both sides of his mouth about excessive overtime while the level of labor is low in the short run and the long run.

But something needs to be done, and done now. Subpar is not good enough. Not for our membership. We call on the membership to help us develop a plan to extricate ourselves from this disaster. It may be a tough road ahead, but it is one that we cannot turn away from. We need new members to bolster the Local 100.