DEJA-VOUS

Deja Vous ! We have been down this road before....... Repeatedly!!
How amazing it was to sit and watch history repeat itself. Again.

In the present example we had a group of people who used to come to meetings en masse to vote on a single issue. Once they had done what they came to do, they would walk out en masse, leaving the general body of the membership with a feeling of unease and in some instances downright anger.
The last time this happened in my memory was back in 1999 when our Local adopted the.........."Continuous Election Process"! This is where the membership would get to vote and revote continuously until the proper officials son was "elected". Theoretically, this would give people a chance to see how other prominent office holders were voting and would allow these people to change their votes. I am told by sources that at least a couple of people were richly, richly rewarded for changing their vote that day.

Many current reps were there that day when our Local first pioneered the use of the "Continuous Election Process" and are presently outraged that this practice was used against them, so effectively, recently.

In the current example our Locals senior leadership introduced legislation to " Limit the number of Reps who could run against the current President and the First-Vice". "Twas all done in the name of true democracy" of addressing the need to have less elections and thus spend less union dues and it passed with the help of a number of people who left soon after the legislation passed.

Our reps are pissed and rightly so! But it can be rectified........with my help.