We should learn from the outcome of our last contract negotiations. The language was written and the contract was implemented, and you will recall the state of confusion that our officials were in trying to out shout and argue each point of the new contract.
But, as any one with half of a brain knows, a lawyer’s whole life and place on earth is to confuse and intimidate. They are paid to do this. Their whole life and profession is based on this.
Words can have different meanings. Several words strung together can mean different things and it is up the strongest and best debater as to what they mean.
I have always said, it would be cheaper for us to hire a herd of att. to do our negotiations than for us to, later, try and argue the fine points of our contract and to have to live under their more forceful interpretations.
Carol Reed
