Department of Whipsawed Emotions

[kaffy_r]

Boo-Yah!

Tonight, when I go to my monthly union local meeting, I fully expect my emotions to be, as the subject line says, whipsawed. 

Still mourning Jerry. Many of us at the meeting will mourn him as well. But we're also celebrating this news (it's been a long time coming), and I know Jerry would be so incredibly happy to hear this news. I'm hoping he's looking down (or up, or sideways, or from That Other Dimension of Perfect Justice) and cheering. God knows, he helped get us here. 

So on his behalf? 

BOO-YAH! 

(Yes, the union election has yet to take place, but our remarkable organizers wouldn't have announced it, wouldn't have gone public with the news — or the very sophisticated pro-union Trib newsroom employee website — if we didn't have a fairly strong expectation that we'll win this one. I'm knocking wood as I say that, of course.) 

Still ... 

BOO-YAH!

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Good on you, and good luck!

[thisbluespirit]

Hurrah! Well done! Even if it is now very bittersweet. *hugs*

[bibliofile]

I know, right?! I cheered out loud when I read that on my phone.

[kaffy_r]

Thanks - good news helps. We had a great meeting last night; drank toasts to Jerry and told stories about him. And this good news helped.

[kaffy_r]

We drank to Jerry at our meeting last night - drinking isnt something we normally do at the meetings, but it was for Jerry - told stories about him, and knew that he was happy about the Tribune news, wherever he was. And if he was in hell, I said, he was probably attempting to unionize it for better working conditions ....

[kaffy_r]

Yep - I might have done some screeching of my own. Heh.

[liadt]

\o/ if tinged with sadness.

[kaffy_r]

Thanks. I'm really getting an idea of what bittersweet is right now.