MAC is still growing like some kind of uncontrollable weed that Cleveland doesn't know how to kill without coming off looking even more evil than they are. Information about MAC and the corruption within UTU is appearing on workplace walls and people are actually reading it. Is all this potentially subversive activity getting reported back to Cleveland or are they operating in the dark. As the MAC takes shape it starts to look more like a network of terrorist cells and not a corporate pyramid with a titular head at the top like the UTU. Yet Cleveland is still attacking Roger. No doubt he is a master organizer and has given UTU members the hope and direction to move ahead with reform. But at what point does MAC take on a life of its own? The Team better be worried about that, not about discrediting Roger whose stock is still outperforming Byron's and even Paulie's.
ON TEAM CREDIBILITY
What would you do if you had invested some of your hard earned money in a Mutual Fund only to discover that some of the fund's managers were maximizing their profits at your expense? Would you take a wait and see attitude and hope that the Company employing the criminals would root them out? If a few criminals were identified and removed would you feel relieved and let your bets ride confident that the remaining managers were honest? Would you suspect that there could be more bad apples not yet identified and pull your money out of that company's hands alogether? Would you be really cynical and accuse the company of having a screwed up corporate culture and pull your money out? Would you call for investigations and oversight of the industry in order to keep others from being victimized? Would you call for a strengthening of regulation of such business and business in general in order to protect the public? There are any number of responses to such an experience.
Some UTU members are being accused of jumping ship in part because they are disgusted by corruption in the UTU. Is it unreasonable for them to think that not all the bad apples have been removed? The Feds don't seem to think so with their talk of other unindicted known and unknown conspirators in the RICO Enterprise. We will see if they are correct in the near future. Contrary to some posts here, the Team was not doing anything to identify and expel the guilty without being pressured by the members. Paul Thompson himself was defending Boyd in word and action until the guilty plea. Now the members are supposed to rally around Thompson, trust the Team to clean house itself and go back to sleep.
UTU'S REAL FRIENDS
UTU members thinking only of themselves would be wise to abandon ship and stop financing a potentially useless and corrupt organization. Where to go is a difficult question to answer. We all have the right to be wrong. The more difficult choice is to hang in there and attempt to do the right thing by exerting the force of your membership in order to bring about the house cleaning and reform that are the only things that will save UTU. The International President and his Team cannot save UTU. The government and carrier allies that the Team thought it had seem to have turned against them. Even the loyal UTU members in their disorganized support cannot save her. Only a membership organized and committed to reform can do the job now. The only friends UTU has left are those who have joined and those who are inclined to join a movement like MAC.
Oh, and Roger is their current ringleader. Looks like he's a good friend to UTU too.