I thought this might help illustrate your point. I’m pretty sure this guy is doing it correctly. While I would love if the gold club was wrong for more reasons than just being gold, it unfortunately is in a correct position.

He doesn’t have a choice

Chip Kelly will be Alabamas next OC. You heard it here first. It’s perfect. Hurts fits his system for three years. Rebuild his offensive genius image then head back to head coach.

This assumes the union has the legal power and the actual motivation to fight back.

Oh and I see where I might have caused a misunderstanding. In my original post what I meant was salaries, benefits, etc have been removed leaving only mostly unimportant issues to negotiate.

Yes to the don’t do a good job negotiating. And not just because of the rules but in my case, and I think in many local teachers unions, the union is too close to management. And that is both caused by the fact that they are actually employees of the same management and also because they don’t really want to fight.

And the bargaining rules came down from the state. And unfortunately I can only vote against people like pence. Sadly in Indiana I fall in the minority politically

I get where you are coming from. But as I replied to another post my issue is with my specific union.

Yes Indiana is already RTW. Right, I’m not sure what doesn’t add up. My point was my union is made of if people not really willing to fight for anything in the first place

i was in my union. They even asked me to be on the negotiating committee. But when I told them I would not likely agree to any terms that included one time bonus “stipends” in lieu of actual salary increases it became clear that I might not fit their negotiating strategy. Which in my 12 years in the corporation has…

My issue as a teacher in Indiana is my particular teachers union is gutless. In addition the state has effectively neutered teachers unions in general by removing all but the most banal details from collective bargaining (like salaries, benefits, etc).