Guild no-shows: what kept you away?

Mensch to Guild: I can't go for that

Baron responds

4 Comments

• Phil said:

  The silence is deafening. Perhaps the people who chose not to vote are the folks with the lifetime job gurantees and are still learning about this new craze known as the internet?

  June 11, 2009 11:18 AM

• Mike Saunders said:

  Phil, some of the people who didn't vote were co-op students who didn't know they were eligible to vote. Other folks were on assignment, or just screwed up and didn't file an absentee ballot in time because they were undecided. They probably feel shitty enough as is without more piling on.

  And your quip about the internet falls flat in several ways. I'm in the "book of life" but I voted yes...and I'm someone who learned about this "new internet craze" with Usenet, the pre-Salon version of The Well, and Mosaic.

  June 12, 2009 9:50 AM

• Phil said:

  Mike,if it was my quip that got you to respond I will say my mission was accomplished. I, like Adam and Joe Fitz, was just very interested in hearing from someone as to why such a large group of people would not vote on something so important. I'm glad that you posted what you did as it starts to answer why some of the guild didn't vote. As for the co-op students who didn't know they could vote, that sounds like the guild leadership really did their members a great disservice.

  June 12, 2009 10:21 AM

• Mike Saunders said:

  Phil, I understand. Those of us who voted, regardless of how we felt, were puzzled that there were so many no-shows. In fact, folks who voted "no" would have liked a stronger mandate, with the reasoning being that it would have established a better bargaining position.

  June 12, 2009 10:57 AM

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