According to Miami's bid, it looks like there are about 55 mechs dedicated to tow crews. Are they to rebid?
55 mechs at $47 an hour as opposed to 55 FSCs at $30 an hour. I wonder why they made the change. It's a mystery. They can even make those tow crews part timers I'm sure.
It sucks we are losing that easy work, but moving planes doesn't constitute aircraft maintenance. Union tech CC instructors travel to out stations to train FSCs in running APU, talking on radios and towing the airplanes, the FSCs are just going to do it on a grander scale.
It's easy work just like deicing, or wing ice inspection, easy for us but doesn't require an A&P, kind of like we have OSMs doing work that isn't really A&P work. We are not in the time of the 80s where we did everything.
At ORD we had slide shop, pod shop, O2 shop, tire shop, even an engine shop (before my time) all moved to Tulsa. Times change. A good change is talking to our union leadership they no longer say, if you don't like it, there's no fence between here and United.
