Neither should MET. I find it abhorrant that my NERL colleagues and I get a say in a matter we have no right to dictate. Wasn't there a motion passed to ensure this wouldn't happen?
As explained extremely clearly in Union communication, NSL votes will be counted first; this satisfies the sectional issue of Met. If it is a 'no' vote, then the whole ATCO offer will be rejected without any recourse to what NERL voted.
If it is a 'yes' vote from NSL then and only then will the votes from NERL be added to get an overall result. This way of counting the votes means that the sectional issues i.e. Met will be dealt with first.
To try to think you have a sway over the Met question is a misunderstanding of the vote count process and could get you into a bit of a moral dilemma, if you are indeed trying to take the moral high ground.
If 51% of NSL are happy with the Met being carried out by them, then voting 'no' as a NERL employee in order to 'help out your NSL colleagues' is a total farce... You'd actually be voting
against the wishes of the majority (albeit 2% majority in this example) of the people it is going to affect. Like it or lump it, that 2% majority is what counts, this is a democratic process.
The Met question will be answered by those if affects. NERL employees can vote based on what they think of their deal, irrespective of Met. (And if that means they vote 'no' in support of ATSAs or Engineers then that's up to them and totally different from the NSL issue). You should vote the way you think you should vote for the deal as it effects you, the way the count is being done means that it is an efficient way of sorting out the sectional issue, an issue which does not affect NERL.
NSL have the ability to blow the deal out of the water if they are concerned about Met.
I find it abhorrant that my NERL colleagues and I get a say...
I find it abhorrent that an intelligent workforce doesn't understand how the ballot will be counted and the ramifications of the process, and because of that they will vote 'tactically' over something that they freely admit has nothing to do with them. By doing so, they could actually be voting against the wishes of the majority of NSL, just because they think they are helping them out!