We Cannot Remain Silent!

We cannot remain silent!

Paycheck First (a not-so-popular blog regarding the UAW 2865 contract campaign) claims to stand up for what matters most- our wallets! - but they have shown time and again that that is not true.

Don't get us wrong, we truly believe that PF only cares about our wallets, but our grievance is that they have capitulated to the rhetoric of the social justice, anarcho-communist leftwing extremist Marxists that rule our union.

This blog is different. We don't hide behind rhetoric- secretly working for the side of good while using the words of the anarchists and socialists-, we are UNABASHEDLY HONEST about our values. Paycheck Only stands for precisely that. We don't care about quality and accessibility of education. Let the legislature figure that out. We won't waste time talking about bathrooms in the bargaining room. We are here for one reason and one reason only: TO FATTEN YOUR WALLET.

Why should our dues money go to fighting for anti-discrimination? 
That's why we have LGBT Centers, Women's Centers, Black Student Unions, etc on campus.

Why should our dues money go to fighting for bathrooms?
That's what our Grad Student Assemblies are for.

Why should our dues money go to fighting for childcare and dependent care?
We've got the ACA now so the healthcare issue is fixed, and most members don't have children.

Why are we spending all this time on so called "rights" and "accessibility" for minorities?
I thought the current leadership wanted a democratic union, doesn't democracy mean majority rule?!

Why has bargaining taken this long?
Seriously, how long does it take to just ask for a modest 5% raise and then capitulate to a 3% raise when management says that they can't afford that? Bargaining could have been over in like 1 hour if we were in charge.

Why Paycheck ONLY not Paycheck FIRST?
Because in order to get non-economic wins (childcare, healthcare, housing subsidies, parking subsidies, transportation subsidies, appointment notification, appointment security, abolition of the 18 quarter limit, smaller class size etc...) we will have to give up some amount of an economic win. That's how all those things are always leveraged. So for every little change we want we're going to have to give up something. Everything has a cost!!!

Which is why the only way to truly stand up for our wallets is to say PAYCHECKS ONLY!!