Dear Awilda _______ [Last Name Withheld]

By letter dated May 10, 2006, I promised to communicate with you in the future in response to your request that I congratulate you for your conversion to full time. In that letter I requested that you join the union and you responded with an invitation that I defer this request until you were converted.

As per the terms of the 2006 national agreement, you have either been converted to full time or will be no later than December 1 st of this year. As you requested, congratulations are in order.

Now that I have met your condition of membership, it is expected that you will meet your commitment. Remember your words? “At which time I will gladly join the union again.”

I suspected that your excuse in May of 2006 for not joining the union was merely an excuse but you have an opportunity to prove that I was wrong. I believed at the time of our exchange that as long as you could continue receiving the benefits of union efforts without making a contribution you would and could justify your decision as circumstances arise.

Well, here we are at the point where you either fulfill your promise or resign yourself to being a person of poor character and whose word is not a conviction.

Once again, I submit to you our invitation to join in the efforts to work collectively for our common good.

In union solidarity,

William Burrus
President
Dec. 5, 2007