In this profile I want everyone to get an understanding the companies Amfa is allowing jobs to be outsourced too! Amfa wants you to believe they have Iron Clad language! They want you to believe they reduced the work form 100% to 38% with several loopholes! NWA had one of the lowest rates of outsourcing in the Industry before 1999. Well below 20%. Now they have surpassed the half way mark with 4800 members out of work!
Amfa was unable to win in arbitration on FM1 and now has basically allowed unlimited outsourcing with little recourse! As Amfa members leave at an unprecedented rate Amfa Delle is enjoying hotdogs and Hamburgers at a defunct local with no regular Members! And is spending well in excess of 500,000 dollars at AA while having no attorneys during negotiations at Horizon! Does this make since? It looks like a defunct leader with a vendetta! And now his puppets are following his lead to the destruction of our jobs at AA!
Here is the first of Many articles!
Up to 50% savings in Outsourcing
People inside the contract-maintenance industry say repair stations save airlines 40% to 50% with comparable quality. TIMCO Aviation Services, a Greensboro, N.C.-based company used by United and several other airlines, is one of the larger such companies. It employs about 3,000 non-union mechanics, pays lower wages than the airlines and operates facilities in small Southern cities with low costs of living.
"TIMCO has an excellent quality record on par with the best airlines' maintenance practices," President Gil West says.
In recent years, however, the quality of work by some repair stations has come under fire, and airlines using them have been criticized for lax oversight. In 1998, Phoenix-based America West Airlines was fined a record $5 million by the FAA for violations related to its use of contractors.
The FAA faulted sloppy procedures at contract maintenance bases doing work on America West jets. The low-fare carrier had trimmed its staff of mechanics and contracted out much of its maintenance. Ultimately, $2.5 million of the fine was waived when America West changed contractors and agreed to improvements. America West is now a TIMCO customer.
United mechanics have complained about the quality and cost-effectiveness of maintenance done by repair shops. Several months ago, IAM officials say, work done on a number of Boeing 737s under an FAA directive was done incorrectly by TIMCO and had to be redone by United mechanics in Indianapolis. TIMCO mechanics used supports made of the wrong material on the front bulkhead that helps keep the plane pressurized during flight, says Bill Austin, a mechanic and IAM safety chairman at United's Indianapolis facility.
"We ended up with three or four planes flying around for months with (the wrong) material," Austin says. TIMCO's West says use of the wrong material posed no risk. "It wasn't a safety-of-flight issue," he says.
Austin says it could have been. The bulkhead, which sits in front of the cockpit, isn't as strong without the right supports, he says. "Somebody didn't follow the book."
Full story;
12/26/2002 - Updated 07:37 AM ET
United wants to cut labor costs by contracting aircraft maintenance
By Marilyn Adams, USA TODAY
I use this story because this is the aftermath, from the demise of United ! They have drank the Amfa kool-aid!
Amfa was unable to win in arbitration on FM1 and now has basically allowed unlimited outsourcing with little recourse! As Amfa members leave at an unprecedented rate Amfa Delle is enjoying hotdogs and Hamburgers at a defunct local with no regular Members! And is spending well in excess of 500,000 dollars at AA while having no attorneys during negotiations at Horizon! Does this make since? It looks like a defunct leader with a vendetta! And now his puppets are following his lead to the destruction of our jobs at AA!
Here is the first of Many articles!
Up to 50% savings in Outsourcing
People inside the contract-maintenance industry say repair stations save airlines 40% to 50% with comparable quality. TIMCO Aviation Services, a Greensboro, N.C.-based company used by United and several other airlines, is one of the larger such companies. It employs about 3,000 non-union mechanics, pays lower wages than the airlines and operates facilities in small Southern cities with low costs of living.
"TIMCO has an excellent quality record on par with the best airlines' maintenance practices," President Gil West says.
In recent years, however, the quality of work by some repair stations has come under fire, and airlines using them have been criticized for lax oversight. In 1998, Phoenix-based America West Airlines was fined a record $5 million by the FAA for violations related to its use of contractors.
The FAA faulted sloppy procedures at contract maintenance bases doing work on America West jets. The low-fare carrier had trimmed its staff of mechanics and contracted out much of its maintenance. Ultimately, $2.5 million of the fine was waived when America West changed contractors and agreed to improvements. America West is now a TIMCO customer.
United mechanics have complained about the quality and cost-effectiveness of maintenance done by repair shops. Several months ago, IAM officials say, work done on a number of Boeing 737s under an FAA directive was done incorrectly by TIMCO and had to be redone by United mechanics in Indianapolis. TIMCO mechanics used supports made of the wrong material on the front bulkhead that helps keep the plane pressurized during flight, says Bill Austin, a mechanic and IAM safety chairman at United's Indianapolis facility.
"We ended up with three or four planes flying around for months with (the wrong) material," Austin says. TIMCO's West says use of the wrong material posed no risk. "It wasn't a safety-of-flight issue," he says.
Austin says it could have been. The bulkhead, which sits in front of the cockpit, isn't as strong without the right supports, he says. "Somebody didn't follow the book."
Full story;
12/26/2002 - Updated 07:37 AM ET
United wants to cut labor costs by contracting aircraft maintenance
By Marilyn Adams, USA TODAY
I use this story because this is the aftermath, from the demise of United ! They have drank the Amfa kool-aid!
