420/250
IPMS has not rolled over. It either recommends the offer as the best it will get thru NEGOTIATION, or it doesn't.
It is OUR job as members to take it a step further and say we don't think that negotiation has worked and we vote NO. And we make it clear that we will not accept being re-ballotted like 1998.
Then we can strap ourselves in for industrial action.
If some of our colleagues want to vote yes then it is their fault for being easy to please.
Threatening industrial action, then having half the members wobble when it comes to the real action makes us look like morons.
A union is only as strong as its members. If the majority of those members are not strong then we will fail in getting our just rewards !
Personally, I think the offer sucks and will be voting accordingly.
INS