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[quote user="RRKen"][quote user="Rail-Roadwarrior"] As I sat in at those meetings I thought to myself this is all a waste of time. None of this will matter tommorrow and nothing will change. It's hard to keep the faith when the carrier screws you over time after time and nothing ever gets done about it.[/quote] As the Zuggman will attest, I get frustrated at this kind of talk.  As a union officer, I aim to serve as best I can.   I spend hours of my own time making sure that issues are addressed, the checks are in the mail, and information the members want is provided.   I really do not like confrontation, it serves no purpose other than to alienate others.   I spend a lot of time teaching younger men about the CNW schedule, and that we cannot afford to let the carrier erode it any further than it already has.   The tide is turning in some locations today.   No more can the politics of seniority dictate who can govern, and who cannot.  One very large district has already seen the younger members out-number them, forcing the focus to change.   No longer can the agreements we have seen since the merger be passed that will further gut the pay of new hires or worse.   This is the exception, not the rule yet.  (National elimination of the two tiered new hire rates has to be the biggest insult, and to be honest, needs to be the first to go away.  And I would not be surprised if it was traded for some pre-85 items since pre-85 is becoming the minority.)[/quote]Ken, if we had more guys like you things would be different. We had officers who just never showed a whole lot of interest. They were always marked off on union business but never seemed to get any claims paid or any other issues taken care of. And getting a phone call returned could take a while. I understand that being a local chairman or an officer can be stressfull with the constant phone calls and complaints on top of working your job, I never wanted any part of it. Some are better suited than others, more power to you for being able to hack it.
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