After a month of not meeting, our bargaining team met with TruStage management and their lawyer from Jackson Lewis through the federal mediation process. There was some hope among our membership when new CEO Terrance Williams told the press: “I would like us to find ways to bring [negotiations] to conclusion, allowing us to move forward as one TruStage.” None of that came through in their proposal last week.
TruStage refuses to address our membership’s core priorities that remain on the bargaining table. Instead, they put forward proposals that amount to moving around the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic. These are NOT proposals that we as members have said countless times that we need and went on strike for.
TruStage is playing the waiting game, and trying to exhaust us. And after nearly 600 days, we are exhausted, and rightly so. But we have no plans to give up. We have a lot of power as workers, and it’s time to show our strength in collective action.
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