Firstly, thank you for a decent response without resorting to the normal attack which makes us worse than management.
Upgrade times won’t affect me but yes I joined after 2008 and in TA16 everyone said hold your ground and yet nothing has happened. More pressure should have been put on and if we vote this down without adding pressure they will just sit back and wait for us to come to the table again, most likely resulting in probably another step down.
The fact is it’s still better than all of us after 2008 joined on so it’s still a step up.
If we had a clear direction then maybe we can get a 100% no showing that we have had enough but if it’s 49% again we won’t achieve anything.
This is why I ask the question of what is the plan and have started this thread so maybe we can have a constructive conversation about what we want our union to do for us.