So what are you doing when you sign an authorization card, except to authorize the union to negotiate for you. That sounds like joining the union to me, and is slightly similar to card check, in a back door kind of way. Please correct me if I am wrong.
My next question is if the union is negotiating for wages, then what do we need the contract companies for? Usually, the company with union people bids to do a job, such as change out a transformer or refuel the plant, but with HP's all they do is provide people to work for and along side the house people, under the direction of the house, for whatever the house decides. The Business Agent (BA) finds the jobs for the workers and places them according to seniority, so no more talking to Kristie or Roxanne, or if you are Bartlett, Scott, Joey, etc. As a matter of fact, you would be prohibited from talking to these people except through the BA. Again, correct me if I am wrong. Understand, and bear with me, as I haven't been able to read the entire thread.
Another question of mine is how this will affect current union contracts, such as Salem, where it is in their contract with the house techs that the contractors will belong to their union. Will you have to belong to both? Pay dues to both? Follow both contracts? If there is a conflict, which union wins?
Finally, for this thread, will we have union stewards at each site for NPUA? How will they be chosen, since the people for the outage change from outage to outage, and what happens if a previously elected or appointed steward isn't selected for that outage? Will they have the seniority to bump another tech from that outage so a steward will be present?
Again, I haven't read the entire thread, but will continue to try (it is a long thread). If ony of my questions have been answered in previous posts, please post the link or send it to me. Thanks.