Vote No to By - Law Changes from Richard Rivera -CED

Executive Board Member -Tony Guishard says:

Screw the members; let them make their dues payments on their own like the rest of us.

Why should the shop committee help them out by collecting checks and forwarding the payments to the Union Hall?

Why would he say this?
Because him, Toussaint and Nelson Rivera don’t want you to pay your dues. They don’t want you to have a voice, vote and an opinion.

He even went as far to say that “allowing the members to vote on the by-law changes is just a courtesy. The E-Board should be making the decision alone, without the members input”.

PAY YOUR DUES SO YOU CAN VOTE!

THE BY-LAW CHANGES ARE A SCAM! VOTE NO
and help to Take Back Our Union from the Scam Artists. Tell ‘em to keep the dog tags

FYI from Richard Rivera Shop Steward Car Repair
Member in Good Standing

The Reason I Vote NO On The By-Law Changes

By Station Agent Christine Williams

There are so many reasons that I don’t know where to start. I don’t know, but this whole thing is suspect to me. In my opinion, the last thing this union needs is to amend the Local 100 By Laws.

Think about it. Right now TWU Local 100 has a lot of very important issues to deal with. I think the number one issue is to increase and encourage members to pay their dues. Almost half the membership cannot even vote on this issue, so whats the point?

Changing a union's by laws is a very big deal. These changes can permanently alter this union and burden the membership for years to come. Are any of these changes going to benefit the union as a whole? Or will it merely centralize the control to a few people at the top? Will any of these changes give more control to its members to make changes in union leadership? Or will these changes make it harder for the members to choose who they want to represent them?

Just to give you a couple of examples of what I mean: For one, this union wants us to vote on moving this year’s union election up to June. I mean, really, is that so important that you have to amend the union's by laws?

They also want to change the way to choose delegates that go to the convention.

I can think of a thousand things that can be done to improve this union. And I know you can too. Why spend tens of thousands of dollars on this election to change the union's by laws, when we should be using this money to run the union?

I think the number one issue for this union right now is to encourage all Local 100 members to pay their dues! This union needs to increase the amount of members in good standing to have a fair and honest election. But it looks like this union has another agenda.

I guess it’s going to be up to us, the members of TWU Local 100 to stand up and Take Back Our Union. By not paying your dues you give the union leadership more power to dictate the out come of union referendums and union elections.

I am not going to tell you how to vote, but please just read the ballot for yourselves and ask yourselves some questions. How will all these amendment changes benefit Local 100 as a whole? How will these changes help me and my fellow brothers and sisters in TWU Local 100? Then make your choice.

I have already made my choice. And that is why I vote “NO “ on the by law changes!