Proposal IV

First proposal - We may look into it in the future however before we can start to review the farming out section 1.14 should be deleted - Excess Employees. There is no point to discuss farming out if we have excess employees. In that case let them do the work.

Second proposal - Delete Job Security clause ‘involuntary reductions in force’ because it contradicts the farming out purposes. If there is more work that needs to be farmed out then that translates to having less personnel. 

Third proposal - The arbitrators are trained by our employer, and the arbitrators have blindly sided with our employer. There is no point of giving anything more to our employer. As it is the arbitrators have gone further in pleasing and kowtowing our employer. Thus (Arbitration Award CI-2004-0315) arbitrators awards should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism. As TWU Local 100 members who have been burnt infinite times by the arbitrators our confidence in those arbitrators is distrustful, mistrustful, skeptical, in some cases, almost cynical.

We know the current arbitrators are not in the business of ‘knowing and siding with the employees’ about all the questionable stuff that happens. It's not in their interest to ‘know’ or even ‘suspect’. Their interest is in observing and learning which laws and rules can be stretched, which ones can be gotten around, and which ones can be just plain ignored. They're not going to correct anything or question anything our employer does. They're just going to watch how the TWU Local 100 member squirms.

Counter offer 

First - from June 2012 all arbitrators must be from the pool of retired employees who were stewards of TWU Local 100. 

Second - attachment K - MOU - Bargaining Unit Protection delete section 3.