One of the things that was presented in this new contract was that anyone hired after November 2021 was going to lose benefits, like the pensions, and a lot of the membership didn’t feel that was right.
There’s a saying that goes, “You’re not borrowing things from your parents; you’re giving them to your children.”
That doesn’t necessarily mean my children, but anybody in the community from years on down. I don’t want to be one of the guys in 15 years who everybody looks at and has animosity toward because we voted in a contract that we knew wasn’t in the best interest of everybody. The union is not an individual; it’s about the whole.