So, here's something that just blew me off my feet. I contacted NW LaborPress in March to see if they'd be willing to go through their archives to find an article Jonathan Hunt wrote in 2006 about giving up our Right to Strike.
Our ATU website archive only goes back to 2009.
I talked with Office manager Cheri Rice – several times. My phone shows 7 calls. She was very nice, initially. Explained that the archives were not electronically kept. Explained that they were trying to get a paper out and wouldn't have time that particular week. Explained she was part-time. No problemo.
Couple weeks later I called back. She asked if someone named 'Don' called me. I said, "No". Each call I made I offered my time and assistance and if that wasn't OK then I offered to pay them for theirs. Each call she reiterated that someone would get ahold of me. No worries. No one ever did.
So now we're down to 12 days before the votes are counted and I'm not hearing back. They just went silent.
Just got off the phone with her. Ms 'nice as apple pie' suddenly turned into the evil one. Rude, flippant, interrupting, yelling then she hung up on me. But before she hung up, she said something that was of such concern that, instead of leaving to run some badly needed errands, I'm writing this.
Cheri asked, "Didn't you hear back from the Union?
Me, "No, why would I hear back from them?"
LaborPress, "We aren't allowed to give out any information without their permission."
Me, "Why didn't you tell me this before?"
LaborPress, "NO! WE TALKED TO THEM. YOU HAVE TO GET THEIR PERMISSION!! YOU!!"
Me, "Huh? I'm frustrated because you never got back with me. I've been waiting all this time. Why didn't you just tell me that in the first place?" "I wanted to publish it on my blog before the election."
LaborPress, "ARE YOU THREATENING ME???!!!!!
Me, "Who'd you talk to over there?"
LaborPress, "SQUACK ARRCK SHRIEK... SLAM goes the phone!! !!!
hmmm...
T H I N K
A B O U T
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