What A Deal !

The topic for this evening is negociations. The one thing CUPE likes to do, is make a big hoopla out of having everyone involved in negociations and receiving the proposals from ALL the members; but at the end of the day CUPE will pick the ones they see fit without the help of your negociating team, they think they should be putting forward. They will use one of their reps. to make the presentation if you like; and he or she will meet as many times as you would like them to and appear to be making every effort to get somewhere near where you want to be and they will even jump up and down and scream at the employer to make it look even better : similar to a wwf wrestler would; but at the end of one or two years of negociations they will harass you and coerce you into taking about 1 and ½ % over 5 years with a 1% adjustment over 3 years and tell you you got the best deal of every group they have ever negotiated for. As far as doing research, you better have individuals who know their stuff on your team because their definition of research is two pages with a variable of numbers comparing you to a series of groups you never heard tell of; so that the offer their buddies on the employers side have given you as their "best and final offer" looks as if you got the best thing since Sliced Bread. Once that contract is ratified, they own you for the next 4 or 5 years and they continue to have to do nothing but bull Shit the members and collect the big dues cheques. Good luck in your next series of negotiations with cupe. Please write in and tell everyone about your expierences in negociatoins.