Whoever said I was dumb to trust the union was right. OK, I know nobody said it in those words but people thought it. And they were right.
The union conspired with my colleagues to exclude me from the bargaining process. They broke the procedure set out in our collective bargaining agreement, so the need to exclude me must have been pretty pressing.
At this point, I have no idea what’s been negotiated because it’s been done behind my back.
This all happened a week ago, and I so don’t care that I didn’t even bother to blog about it. But then I thought that I owe the people who tried to warn me about the duplicity of the union an honest account of the story.
I’m not putting a brave face on it, I promise. I really don’t care. I acted with absolute integrity throughout the process. I sacrificed my interests to protect somebody who had caused me a lot of annoyance because it was morally right. I waged a battle against my baser instincts and won. Plus, I have my writing accelerator next week and who cares about department drama.
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Does this change your political views about unions as a whole at all (you seemed to be pro-union at least at one point in the history of this blog)? Or is this a “well, this one union is doing bad things, but unions are on balance better than no unions”? Or is this “this one union is being not nice to me but I’ll still support them”? Or something else?
Intelligent, “reasonable” people could respond in all sorts of ways to the situation you’re facing. Curious to know how you see your own situation here.
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Great question. I started to answer but decided to write a separate post. Thank you for suggesting this subject.
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