Say your mom right now.
Right now, one minute.
Right now.
From the outside, a lot of people think you're farthest
away with Galantis compared to GM and Ford.
GM and Ford or GM Solanas are both in the
same place in the mountain.
And we we've we've not made progress there And it's
unfortunate they chose,
and I want to make this clear,
they chose for us to be out here right now,
This wasn't a decision we made.
This is a company's decision.
We came to them at the beginning of bargaining over
8 weeks ago with the demands.
We gave them everything up front.
They waited for over a month to even respond to
our economic demands.
There's no excuse for that.
They we've told them from the outset,
don't wait till the last week.
You're going to find yourself in a bad position.
And they decided to wait till then.
This is all on them.
They were leaked messages that came out overnight from someone
within the UAW essentially saying,
look, we create chaos here.
We'll have these guys scrambling around.
Give the appearance that you guys want to keep them
guessing for an extended period of time,
that you want to go on strike.
Seven, 8-9 weeks, whatever the length may be,
but not for a week.
You want to get a resolution.
What do you say to that?
People who saw those messages and thought,
wait a second, this is a bargaining in good faith.
I say, I say shame on the corporations for putting
that BS out there.
Number one, we have you saying that's not true.
The message may be true but but whoever said it
but the point is this that's not been our mission
has been to get an agreement before bargaining started.
We want our members to get their fair share of
economic justice and when they talk about chaos and all
that we have to plan.
We have to plan for the worst case scenario.
We have to plan because we know how these Companies
Act and we know that we we planned on the
fact that they were going to screw around and wait
till the end like they always do instead of getting
serious about our members concerns.
So we have a plan in place and call it
chaotic,
call it what you want to call it is strategic
and everything we're doing and this the company's own this,
this is on their shoulders.
Everything that's happening right now is on their shoulders.
They own it because they chose not to take care
of the membership.