The TWU according to former local 514 VP Jim Cook:
FIGHT FOR CHANGE!
In his book "Downsize This " Michael Moore said "Our labor leaders seem to have forgotten an important lesson we learned in elementary school: if you give a bully what the bully wants, the bully doesn't become your friend-he just wants more because he knows he can get it."
Where is that statement truer than with the TWU International? Probably nowhere, but we can change our TWU so that it will be fully responsive to the needs of its members. We must be willing to make this happen. No one will represent us the way that we deserve unless we demand it and make clear what our needs are and take action if our representatives don't.
Moore went on, "So what happened to our union leaders? Why did they go soft? Did they get accustomed to their $100,000 a-year jobs and plush offices, forgetting where they came from? Or did we, as union members, forget our responsibility to remain vigilant?"
In the TWU, most International officers salaries are more than twice that of members whom they represent. 'The TWU vice president who is the AA contract coordinator pulls in over $135,000 annually. In addition to this, his expensive SUV and car expenses are paid for, even for personal use. He travels the American Airline system on an A-5 pass and his spouse travels on the same pass for personal as well as business trips. His pass classification is better than all but the highest airline officials. Where is his loyalty? What price did we, the membership pay for his perks?
AMFA supporters have been saying this for YEARS. Yet TWUers deny and excuse these International abuses.
Cook goes on:
The answer is obvious.
We must make changes in our union so that those who represent us are elected by the rank and file membership and not appointed by the International president. We can do this at the next convention If our local leadership Is willing to work hard for meaningful change. Our job is to remain ever vigilant.
With Our Support
Jim Cook
Will Get The Job Done
1989 - Ed Wilson tried and failed
1993 - Local 100's New Directions Group tried and failed
1997 - Local 565 tried and got shot down before the Convention
2001 - Dennis Burchette tried and got welcomed into the "good ole boy" network with a doubling of his salary and an International position.
Does anyone really believe Sonny Hall and Jim Little will allow us the right to remove them from office and their six figure salaries? GET REAL!
The AMFA Constitution gives us the power we seek over elected leaders.
What is so hard to understand?
CIO, TWUer and the rest are just trying to get into the unaccountable good ole boy network by being mouthpieces for Hall and Little and the rest.
TWU MUST GO!
FIGHT FOR CHANGE!
In his book "Downsize This " Michael Moore said "Our labor leaders seem to have forgotten an important lesson we learned in elementary school: if you give a bully what the bully wants, the bully doesn't become your friend-he just wants more because he knows he can get it."
Where is that statement truer than with the TWU International? Probably nowhere, but we can change our TWU so that it will be fully responsive to the needs of its members. We must be willing to make this happen. No one will represent us the way that we deserve unless we demand it and make clear what our needs are and take action if our representatives don't.
Moore went on, "So what happened to our union leaders? Why did they go soft? Did they get accustomed to their $100,000 a-year jobs and plush offices, forgetting where they came from? Or did we, as union members, forget our responsibility to remain vigilant?"
In the TWU, most International officers salaries are more than twice that of members whom they represent. 'The TWU vice president who is the AA contract coordinator pulls in over $135,000 annually. In addition to this, his expensive SUV and car expenses are paid for, even for personal use. He travels the American Airline system on an A-5 pass and his spouse travels on the same pass for personal as well as business trips. His pass classification is better than all but the highest airline officials. Where is his loyalty? What price did we, the membership pay for his perks?
AMFA supporters have been saying this for YEARS. Yet TWUers deny and excuse these International abuses.
Cook goes on:
The answer is obvious.
We must make changes in our union so that those who represent us are elected by the rank and file membership and not appointed by the International president. We can do this at the next convention If our local leadership Is willing to work hard for meaningful change. Our job is to remain ever vigilant.
With Our Support
Jim Cook
Will Get The Job Done
1989 - Ed Wilson tried and failed
1993 - Local 100's New Directions Group tried and failed
1997 - Local 565 tried and got shot down before the Convention
2001 - Dennis Burchette tried and got welcomed into the "good ole boy" network with a doubling of his salary and an International position.
Does anyone really believe Sonny Hall and Jim Little will allow us the right to remove them from office and their six figure salaries? GET REAL!
The AMFA Constitution gives us the power we seek over elected leaders.
What is so hard to understand?
CIO, TWUer and the rest are just trying to get into the unaccountable good ole boy network by being mouthpieces for Hall and Little and the rest.
TWU MUST GO!
