Great contract

It is true that all politics are personal for our co workers - the fact is every member of TWU Local 100 wants a great contract, every member wants a wage raise, every member wants great health coverage, every member wants a great pension, every member believes we are the working poor, every member believes our voices must be heard, every member believes TWU Local 100 matters, every member believes in the unfinished struggle.

We are pleased to say the majority of voices we hear continue to support TWU Local 100 and they believe in TWU Local 100. Every member believes in wage and income inequality - every member (99%) believes there can be no good reason why someone should earn fifty or a hundred times as much as the members of TWU Local 100 who clean the stations and trains in which they use. Would they refuse to work if they earned the same as cleaners? How can it be justified that a CEO or a hedge fund manager makes hundreds of millions of dollars per year? For what? Does anyone believe that no one would do these jobs for a lot less?

Every member believes in building up TWU Local 100, that we will win a slightly bigger share of the pie with TWU Local 100 than without it. Every member aspires to a collective bargaining agreement with either no or weak management clauses, without no-strike agreements, with short durations so that when contracts did include a no-strike agreement TWU Local 100 members would not be hamstrung for very long, every member wants friendly grievance procedures. Every member knows that labor-management cooperation wins weaker agreements in each of the above areas. Unions that won better contracts also were usually the most democratic and subject to rank and file control as we in TWU Local 100.