Tonight I went to the WTU emergency Building Representative Meeting.  This was called by George Parker on Sunday in a robo-call. I am not a building rep, being only rank-and-file, but I went with my building’s rep to see what it would be like.  I was extremely curious if this would be as raucous and crazy a meeting as last happened at McKinley almost a year ago this month.  It wasn’t.

Tonight was a much more controlled affair, for the most part.  There were some angry voices, and some shouting at George – inevitable really, the guy runs meetings the way the Nationals play ball, you keep wondering how he got where he did – but, all in all, the meeting was civil.  There were talks of quoroms and strikes and sick-outs and work to the rule and, in the end, not much was decided or even accomplished.

The most interesting part of the evening for me was when the meeting heated up about the planned protest scheduled by other members of the board for Thursday at 4 pm. Asked if he supported the protest George responded that he did not. His reasons were that an ineffectual protest with just 300 members showing up would do our cause more harm than good (he should know ineffectual).  George has his own protest in mind and he thought that we as a group should provide it with a theme. I turned to Nathan Saunders, who was sitting near me, and said “it’s like naming the lifeboats on the Titanic.”  We’re going down and this guy wants us to give it a name.