Bob, thank you for telling us the truth about what is going on behind closed doors!!!!!!!!
There is a need to get this information out to the members using all media like video, twitter, and facebook. Too many members have buried their heads into the sand, and need to be roused from their complacent trance. Those videos from the Local Presidents had a huge impact on the recent No Vote, and now we need more soon. We need to shout this from the rooftops. Yell loud enough and both judges will hear.
For those of us who voted NO: It took a lot of courage. Thank you to Pilots and thank you to Flight Attendants.
Now look at the results. The NO vote exposed the TRUTH. Lets hope our lawers will hammer the issue in negotiations on the 11th and 12th.
Then we can expect NO Abrogation, with a nice extension while the co. gets a new Walmart calculator, as the Judge orders the bean counters to attend new courses in business ethics and elementary 3rd grade math.
And I will take it one step further. AMFA gets a huge boost if TWU can't make this a huge issue.
Jim Little needs to get off his behind, and do some yelling into the microphone on the steps of the courthouse! If he can't do that, he might find himself shuffling down the sidewalk like Steve Martin in "The Jerk".
That all took place in court, with the doors open.
The companys Lawyer screwed up when he cited the $360million that would go to the unions in profit sharing, (guess they paid that firm a little more than they were worth) that made it public how much their business plan called for in Profits and its probably why they threw me out when they wanted to discuss "Confidential information".
Abrogation or not the company still wins. The only question is "To what degree?". By rights we should be looking at 4 years of Retro and an industry leading contract but by pulling this scam, even if the judge refuses to abrogate they have the membership so wound up that, even though they rejected the LBO, we may accept much less than we should. They have succeeded in lowering expectations even if they arent as low as they had hoped.
An extension simply gives them even more time locked in(with M&R) at the lowest rates in the industry, we need to push for a release either way. That said we probably would not be allowed to strike given the fact that there isnt really any excess capacity out there to absorb AA's passengers so we would likely be sent to a PEB. However none of that will happen if they all beleieve that we will continue to do as we have for the last 4 years. They have to believe that we will shut it down orcause massive disruptions without the legal green light. Lets face it, they know they are abusing the shyte out of us, they are just looking to see how far they can go.
The whole thing is a scam, how can something like the fact that they plan on making $3 billion in profits be kept from us when we are being told that since this is BK we have to look at it differently than regular sect 6 negotiations?
In other words, unknown to us, who were lead to believe that AA was in dire straits financially, we were being told to agree to concessions that would save them far in excess of $212 million in labor costs for SIX MORE YEARS so they could net $3 billion in profits. In other words by shedding leases on aircraft they did not fly, properties they did not use and other underwater items, under the current labor agreements, without touching our pensions, retiree medical and other concessions they still would be the most profitable carrier in the industry with around $1.75 billion in profits!!!
They even commented in court that their non-labor costs would be much lower after BK, in other words they kept all that stuff, making the banks very happy no doubt, to inflate their non-labor costs and keep them "in-line", thus when Analysts do their superficial look at AA they would look at the non-labor costs, (which should have been much lower due to fact they were not paying vendors for maintenance like competitors), and see that they are "in line" with competitors and instead focus all their attention on the labor costs which were of course much higher. The difference drew their attention, gave them a quick answer and they moved on, "since everything else is in line then labor costs must be the problem". They didnt realize that we were an orange and they were comparing us to apples.