Yeah and our union refused to negotiate with the previous administration… What else ya got, wonderboy?
That's a lot of dumbshit to just avoid saying Republicans don't like unions
Maybe if NATCA was an actual union instead a social club and political activist group they’d have more support from the right. 🤷♂️
I’ll play your silly game. Why were law enforcement & firefighters exempted and allowed to keep their federal Union rights? On DOD installations, law enforcement & firefighters are represented by the very same AFGE locals as the other employees on base. So, how does your “A114” argument hold up now?
Maybe because they didn’t instantly endorse Kamala when she was appointed as the democrat nominee.
Maybe if the chickens are really nice to Colonel Sanders & kiss his fat ass, he’ll spare them.
Everything in the government is political and you need to play the game intelligently. What would endorsing Kamala have gained us had she won? Absolutely nothing. But it may hurt them now. The best policy is neutrality, but again, NATCA is a political activist organization and a social club masquerading as a union.
Follow along as I try to explain it more slowly this time. On most military installations, the firefighters & law enforcement officers are not represented by some other Union. They’re represented by the exact same AFGE that endorsed Kamala. In fact, some of those same firefighters & cops often serve as Union stewards & presidents/VPs of their local. So, I ask my question again. Why were they treated differently?
I guarantee you're giving them way too much credit. Most of these EOs and other BS decisions are broad reaching and not thought-out. Hence why judges are blocking some of them, reinstating fired workers, and why we -Air Traffic Controllers- are being asked to write emails every week to show that we have value.
How could they touch me when they haven't been in the same building
I've agreed with everything else you've been saying but this one is just silly. Rinaldi signed the original extension in May 2021, literally within months of Biden taking office. We could have negotiated that summer without ever worrying about Trump.
When Nick visited our facility while on the campaign trail, he specifically talked about wanting to secure access to lower interest rate loans as a way to help the workforce offset the current cost of living.
If you ask certain people, they’d tell you it’s Santa’s fault for not pushing to open negotiations after the Rinaldi extension.
That is Mick Devines explanation. They didn’t want to “balk” on what they had been negotiating for in anticipation of a second Trump term. To preserve the unions credibility with the people they negotiated with from 2019-2021, they extended into 2026 past what would have been a second Trump term if he had been reelected in 2020. It was a giant misstep in hindsight and has effectively gutted this union.
Zero, though I have no idea what the relevance or point of that question is. Maybe you are having a hard time following and comprehending the conversation here.
