This is not an uncommon occurrence. Union bargaining committee's routinely bring back "recommended" contracts to the bodys membership for ratification and are shot down. It's called "good faith" bargaining. The committee has a previously established bare minimum from the body before they ever enter the negotiating room. I have to believe that the AMLU bargaining committee knew this contract proposal had no chance of being ratified, however in an appearance of good faith they brought it back to the membership. Now from a
PR standpoint they can go back to the table and say they were at least objective enough to take a bu11@1t proposal back for a vote. This way they're allowed to leak just how little was offered by management to the press. This tends to make management look like the bad guys when the media picks up things like a per diem increase of the $1.00 they offered in this case.
Tim.