[QUOTE=+A465B;134002]But you ARE willing for them to protect the Jones Act for you? Oh I get it. It is like saying, Why buy the cow when the milk’s free?
THAT said, AMO and SIU efforts to undercut MEBA over the years have been staggering, are and were utterly despicable. In fact, is AMO actually a union? It seems more like an organized crime.
At least the MEMBERS in MEBA revolted in the 90’s when their pension fund was being used as bait. The story is pretty complicated, but MEBA members of a certain age know the real story, as we manned the Halls around the clock to protect our Union and get control, which ultimately we did.
Take your generalized anti union Fox News spin on life and stick it. Just remember, Weekends, brought to you by Unions. Training & Apprenticeships, brought to you by Unions. Health benefits, think Union.
All Unions are not right all the time, nor are they wrong all the time. Just get your facts straight before spouting off about how they all suck. A LOT of people here went to Calhoun, worked their asses off and physically wear the scars, and we have had good solid middle class lives with benefits AND a pension exactly because of Unions,
And that is my rant for today ![/QUOTE]
Yeah!!! Good thing MEBA never did anything to undermine another union…
The near decimation of and most certainly irreparable damage done to MMP in 80s… Thank MEBA at least 50%.
MMP getting no consideration for jobs on MV Carat… Thank MEBA 100%.
MMP getting locked out of Express Ship contract AGAIN (just to be very clear, there is no contractual provision with that company providing for MMP existence there)… Thank MEBA 100%, again on this one.
when I asked a certain someone at the MMP last year why we are combining halls with MEBA, when the past events clearly show they can’t be trusted to work together on contracts (that being the single most important issue for most shipping unions) his reply was:
"AT LEAST WE WILL BE THERE IN PERSON WHEN THEY STAB US IN THE BACK."
Sorry if that is a little ambiguous.
I am neither super pro union nor super pro MMP, but I would never come on here spreading fairy dust on here about it.
Jesse Calhoun was a hell of a businessman and hard worker, but don’t forget ruthless cutthroat to boot.
When things really started to unravel for MEBA in late 2011 and Jewell was doing what he thought best to help MEBA, I really thought we would get closer to joining as we were both in for a big fight to keep good wages and retain contracts long term. We did ultimately get that but both of us took wage and pension cuts.
Having dealt with all that I felt very positive about getting that Express Ship contract in writing. I do not work there, but the principle was very important, as this has been going on since almost 1995.
But NO, MEBA showed its true colors and locked MMP out. I was a fool for believing it could happen and more of a fool for believing Lincoln’s assurances that MEBA was going to work very hard towards MMP contract on those ships, even if that HORSESHIT pass through agreement, which MEBA has lorded over MMP for nearly 20 yrs, is retained.
MOLA… More like MMP is nothing to MEBA but a mole on its taint.
MEBA is “beneficial” is only to itself.