To ALL the Maintenance and Related employees of American Airlines,
HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH...?
We are almost 2 Months into our card drive some stations are reporting most of the mechanics have signed cards.
There are stations on both the LUS & LAA side that need some work, but cards are arriving each day to be inputed
to our database.
There has been a lot of discussion here as to the possibility of a TA, there are many mechanics throughout the system waiting for that to
Happen before signing a card. Some even say it doesn't really matter, signing a card, nothing is going to change. That is so wrong in so many ways.
The TWU & IAM with the help of the AFLCIO created this Association, we all know why DUES. They are a business and just LQQKING out for themselves.
To make this drive a success we need each and everyone of you to ask the mechanics next to you if they have signed a card.
There is still some distrust with the Title 2 mechanics, a lot of them still believe the lies of the TWU/IBT/IAM that AMFA is not going to
represent them. I am asking the Title 1 aircraft mechanics to reach out to them, break down the barrier between the title groups, We cross paths every day in the hangers, terminal, and at the time clocks.
If and when a TA dose come down for us to vote on I hope that each of you read it carefully. The small print is what we usually get bit by and then the TWU
reps will just say you voted it in didn't you read it first. Lets not give them a chance with something in our contract that allows them to say they can do that Brother.
It's time for us to say to this Association we have had enough, and it is time for you to go. It is time that we the Mechanics of AA, get our own bargaining unit
that represents US. The Maintenance and Related Group.
The ATD is only a small portion of union members represented by the TWU, Little, Lombardo, Samuelsen what good did any of them do for US?
For the IAM mechanics at LUS you had an election to rid yourselves of the IAM due to frustration, looking to replace them with the IBT. It is Time for you to join
the LAA mechanics who want the TWU out for the same reason. The Pension and medical are big sticking point for you I get it. Lets not let this Association
do any more damage to your future and the future mechanics in our Class and Craft.
The Time to sign a card is NOW, find an organizer at your station get a name or two of your fellow workers that have not filled out a card and talk with them.
Lets make 2020 the year we rid AA of these two industrial Unions and Bring in AMFA a union that ONLY represents OUR CLASS & CRAFT.