At this late date and with no agreement in sight, the possibility of a strike increases and the need to be prepared more urgent.
 
Given the Company’s refusal to provide employment security, their demands for concessions on healthcare and other demands for take backs, there should be no doubt where these benefits come from in the first place.
 
Our Union built this contract through over 60 years of hard bargaining and sometimes strikes.  We are committed to do the same thing to keep our contract that we did to get it in the first place.
 
Every member has a responsibility to make this a successful contract.  Volunteering to TA to management helps the Company prepare to fight us.  Volunteering for overtime helps the Company to prepare to cut our contract.  Volunteering to sell one more helps the Company to prepare to cut our benefits and give away our jobs.
 
The Company doesn’t even respect those employees who help them undermine bargaining.  They count on the greed and stupidity of some individuals to help them cut the throat of the entire workforce.  Either we will stick together and fight for a good contract or we will have only ourselves to blame.