Pacifying rhetoric

Is Samuelsen pacifying the membership with the lawsuit rhetoric? What if we lose those lawsuit then what happens? Clearly we have no strategies or tactics of anticipating all the possible outcomes whether they be positive or negative. Instead of leading the membership to believe on the exclusivity of a positive outcome of the lawsuits we need to be given all possible outcomes.

What if our employer won those lawsuits? What are the trade-offs? Samuelsen has the duty to keep the membership informed, and explain the basis of lawsuits in a clear manner to allow the membership to make informed decisions about them.

Samuelsen has failed so far to promptly notify the membership on the status of the lawsuits. We need to know clearly what the lawsuits are based on. We should not be in the dark. The rank and file are not young children thus the lawsuit information should not be hidden.

Samuelsen must report the status of the lawsuit regularly and seek the membership’s input with a proper discussion. Political survival of the union under Samuelsen requires that he adopt a transparent policy that has support of the majority of the rank and file. The more that he pursues those pacifying policies the further that the union becomes divided. That behavior may have been utilized in the past but using them now hinders our union instead of allowing for growth. We are at a crossroads in our struggle and we here in why did you join the union, recommend that you let your voice be heard.