Caution to Samuelsen

Jay H Walder in his report of January 2010 ‘making every dollar count’ is flawed and in totality hostile towards the blue collar workers especially for the membership of TWU Local 100. Walder stated that his goal is to reduce the cost of providing service.

We here in why did you join the union would like to point out that on page 7 of the “Work Rules: To successfully reduce costs, our unions must be active partners. We will be asking our labor organizations to work with us to identify opportunities for savings. Our intent is to implement improvements such as cost-saving technology, streamline processes and create opportunities to provide better value to the customer and the taxpayer – while maintaining those rules that provide the essential protections employees deserve.”

We would like to warn and remind Samuelsen of Jay H Walder who was given billions of dollars in federal stimulus money in 2009. What did he do with it? Nothing except give layoffs to over one thousand fellow co workers who are exemplary and hard working employees. We cannot fathom what is in the mind of Walder and we would care less. However we know what is on our mind, and we here in why did you join the union say no to Walder’s work rules. We are not partners and our relationship is clearly defined as employer and employee. We are not going to be fooled with the “partners” rhetoric.

Since our goals as blue collar workers are in the opposite direction than those of Walder’s objectives for ‘low or no cost’  by paying as low wages as possible. We the blue collar workers objective is to obtain higher wages. Secondly the Walder authoritarian management style must be limited. We here in why did you join the union would work hard to get Walder removed because he will never slash his own salary, or take a pay freeze. However he wants us the blue collar workers to accept them in addition to taking a worse retirement deal while he has his luxurious sendoff package.