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Pulling the Wool off of Capital Metro
RECEIVED Fri., April 6, 2007
Dear Editor,
Michael King does a nice job pulling the wool off of Capital Metro's latest attempt to bust our union [“Point Austin,” News, April 6]. They think we're so stupid that we would give up the only thing that moved negotiations in 2005 – the right to strike. This profound disrespect had as much to do with the mentioned near-strike in December and the one-day strike which preceded it in September as any of the economic issues. Do they think we're puppies who have now forgotten the beating and will run back to our master? It is quite the opposite, as we have merged the two Austin locals and organized the last nonunion Capital Metro workers in preparation for the transit authority's next attack on the workers. Our leadership [1091 President Jay Wyatt] is correct to say we "don't … give a shit" about our right to strike [“Cap Met Labor Update,” News, March 23]. As demonstrated in New York that same winter of '05, workers will exercise their inalienable right to withhold work when abused no matter what the legal ramifications are.
Michael King does a nice job pulling the wool off of Capital Metro's latest attempt to bust our union [“Point Austin,” News, April 6]. They think we're so stupid that we would give up the only thing that moved negotiations in 2005 – the right to strike. This profound disrespect had as much to do with the mentioned near-strike in December and the one-day strike which preceded it in September as any of the economic issues. Do they think we're puppies who have now forgotten the beating and will run back to our master? It is quite the opposite, as we have merged the two Austin locals and organized the last nonunion Capital Metro workers in preparation for the transit authority's next attack on the workers. Our leadership [1091 President Jay Wyatt] is correct to say we "don't … give a shit" about our right to strike [“Cap Met Labor Update,” News, March 23]. As demonstrated in New York that same winter of '05, workers will exercise their inalienable right to withhold work when abused no matter what the legal ramifications are.
Glenn Gaven
ATU 1091 member
ATU 1091 member
