Late one Tuesday afternoon, after the union’s members had ratified our proposed CBA, I received a phone call from a vice president of the regional office for that union. His signature was required on the new CBA. When he introduced himself, I guessed he was calling to offer his congratulations on the new contract and tell me that the fully signed agreement was on its way back to me. I immediately thought, what a nice gesture.
Instead, he wanted to threaten me. “You’re new,” he said, “you don’t understand that there was an error made in the new language for the wage calculator. By writing it this way, it means that future pay increases will be based on a straight dollar amount instead of being based on percentages, which is how ...
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