Another Unit Raided By the BLET

This came in from the comments section:

It has been officially announced by the National Mediation Board in Washington DC that UTU has once again lost another representation election.

The campaign on a railroad property called ICE involved 300 railroad workers who decided enough with the Futhey regime. The vote ended with 186 in favor of the BLET 80 for the UTU.
According to the BLET, the theme of the campaign was that the UTU is broke and divided.

This extensive campaign by the UTU was led by several of Futhey's friends and supporters. Good news is that one of Futhey's appointees maintained his best score for video golf at the Bettendorf Holiday Inn.

We Are ALL Under Attack

It does not matter where you stand in the battle for the future of our union, because while our union may have its internal differences, we are all under attack from our mutual enemies.

Yesterday, the Employee Free Choice Act was introduced. While the bill will level the playing field for workers by removing the barriers to organizing for millions of Americans, corporate America, the beltway pundits, and lobbyists are doing everything to stop the legislation in its tracks.

We at the Real UTU urge everyone, no matter who you are, to write your Senators and Congressmen about this bill. Let them know who it is that made the Democratic Party what it is and who stood by them through the good and the bad. Now, more than ever America needs a strong labor movement, especially during these economic rough times.

While we fight for the future of our union, we cannot let the attacks of those whose intend to destroy us go unchallenged.

An Injury To One Is Not Their Problem

The people at "Sink Our Union" have been so obsessed with carrying water for their King, Mike Futhey, that they seem to have forgotten the big picture.

Visiting their site is like a visit into the twilight zone, where current events and economic realities we as union members face take a back seat. Instead, we're treated to an "Alice In Wonderland" World where overturning the voting intent of thousands of UTU members seems to be an obsession that overcomes all else.

Try to find talk about the recession and its effect on rail workers. Maybe you can try to dig up even just the slightest bit of discussion about the Employee Free Choice Act. Try it and you'll come up with nothing. Two months ago, when the labor movement, in particular the UAW, was under attack by conservative right wing Republicans, not a word in defense of our brothers and sisters in the auto industry was mentioned.

No, instead the discussion on that site is completely dominated by the whims of the four BLET plaintiffs and the dictates of their king, Mike Futhey.

Of course, being BLET members who were in leadership positions within their union, it comes as no surprise these same people remain the sole backers of people like Dan Boren (D-OK) from within the labor movement. In case you're wondering, Dan Boren, a Democrat from Oklahoma, has been a vocal opponent of organized labor and even took to the stage today at a Chamber of Commerce meeting to blast the labor movement.

Who among his top backers is the only union to support him? You guessed it. The BLET.

The same union the UTU plaintiffs come from and want to merge us into.

Talk about being a group of out of touch, "useful idiots."

Maybe, we are being too hard on them. Maybe, when it comes to the brand of unionism practiced by the BLET plaintiffs, the long cherish labor value of "an "injury to one, is an inury to all" doesn't really seem to matter.