A fine way to represent. All I hear is 35/hr defensive and demeaning rhetoric. NPUA does seem to represent itself as a business. Not a representation of working folks. This indicates self interests, which is what I suspect is at the heart of all unions, power,control, and put as much into union leadership pockets as possible. Now this does not mean all union members are this way, there are many good union folks, but the union leadership ends up acting like an entrenched govt bureaucracy, interested only in self preservation and enrichment.
There is no such thing as benevolence. No one is looking out for my good. I must either accept the union, with its flaws,reject it or try and change it. But regardless I must look out for myself. I resent the fact that the union leaders set themselves up to make a lot more than the people they represent. This is very telling.
The pressures of the market place will drive up wages. When I started it was 16/50 for seniors,of course this varied on location. What is it now? A good bit more. But no one is going to make a lot of money with short outages. And the utilities are not going to stop looking for ways to save money. Can a union guarantee you more outages? Can a union alter the outage schedules? A lot of industry has left this country. Did the unions prevent this? Look at the state of union run jobs now.How is the auto industry going? How is the education of your children going?
Sound like anti union? Not really, just pro independent thought. Just don't want to get caught up in an organization that is no better than the ones they criticize.
Think for yourself,rely on yourself. Not Bartlett not unions,not the utilities.