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The names at the top in Lisbon may have changed, their game plan has not. They still take their orders from those who first sought to stymie your colleagues across the pond with union busting tactics.
Those same tactics were described to us by the Teamsters who outlined in detail what we could expect. Every step, every working group, every employee survey, every tame crewmember, every trick they described has been used in the sequence they predicted.
The threats, and make no mistake they are threats, that expansion plans and other things are in peril if a union comes into play are hollow. Why would the company refuse to grow because of a union? It makes no business or economic sense.
Management have NO intention of relinquishing their control over the workforce. None. Outreach is merely another tactic, another one of their layers of defence. Your approach is to give it a chance. Read reddo's post. We gave it a chance, several times. Just as you are tired of being made redundant we are tired of being lied to.
Most people are more than happy to negotiate and co-operate. Being threatened and dictated to (again) is not negotiation.