You are so full of sh#t. AMFA cares about all mechs. Line, O/H, hanger, gse, plant maint, ect.. Does not matter with AMFA, they treat ALL mechs the same guys. Anomaly has "0" credit out here. This is just yet another of his many many lies to try and steer all the Tulsa guys away from AMFA. So tell us Anomaly, why did it take an outsider union, AMFA, to represent an AA "OSM mechainic" represented by the TWU to get his job back with full back pay and allattorney fees paid??? How pathetic, and this is not the first time, AMFA has done this for other mechs at AA represented by TWU. This speaks volumes. What says you about these issues Anomaly??? Stick to the topic question only...
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You are so full of sh#t. AMFA cares about all mechs. Line, O/H, hanger, gse, plant maint, ect.. Does not matter with AMFA, they treat ALL mechs the same guys. Anomaly has "0" credit out here. This is just yet another of his many many lies to try and steer all the Tulsa guys away from AMFA. So tell us Anomaly, why did it take an outsider union, AMFA, to represent an AA "OSM mechainic" represented by the TWU to get his job back with full back pay and allattorney fees paid??? How pathetic, and this is not the first time, AMFA has done this for other mechs at AA represented by TWU. This speaks volumes. What says you about these issues Anomaly??? Stick to the topic question only...
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Anomaly is worried about losing his International position or he is sucking up to get one in the near future. Either way he is sucking up to the TWU. His judgment is cloudy. He needs to reset and start over again. I hope most of these TWU stooges will give up their fight for a International position and come to terms that the TWU is on its way out.
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amfa is a union made up by what the members want, at least that is what you claim. My statement that you so vehemently disagree with; Thanks you for proving my point. AMFA DOES NOT WANT OVERHAUL MECHANICS. THEY ONLY WANT TO REPRESENT LINE MECHANICS, was a simple summation of the following posts by your fellow amfa supporter STIKEFORCE.
Maybe he just knows the truth about amfa and who they REALLY represent? AT SWA, you are more satisfied with sending overhaul to South America in return for wage improvements for line maintenance. At Alaska, hangar maintenance and overhaul stations have been willingly given up in return for guarantees for line maintenance. At Mesaba.....well that is just a sad sad story all the way around. amfa unceremoniously just walked away from them.
You are just upset because your supporters can not keep up your veiled cloak of fake support for overhaul.
And why haven't the Teamsters organized that industry instead of the about face raid here? If there's so much opportunity there why hasnt the Teamsters had much success?
Lets face it, you arent saying anything new here. Sure, plenty of airlines outsource some of their line maint, but nobody outsources all of it. Peoples Express tried that, they became known as Peoples Distress. Airlines have been outsourcing line maint as long as I've been in this industry. They arent going to staff every city they fly into with mechanics, there arent enough available to do that anymore even if they wanted to.
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A very good question. I have been asking them the same thing. I wish the Teamsters would focus some of their energy on the MRO's. Nobody else seems to want to.
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Turnover, people dont stay at MROs, the A&Ps go there to get experience (and there's fewer and fewer of them) and the Non-A&Ps simply leave for other industries. Its hard to organize when there's a lot of turnover. By the time you file, a big chunk of the workforce that signed is gone.
AA already had the ATD sign off on doing away with an experience requirement. Right in the middle of negotiations as the company said no the TWU-ATD said Yes (and to supprting anti-trust immunity as well). The Airlines will be recuiting directly from the Schools, AA will become the training ground for the rest of the industry, like they were in the late 80s until EAL went under and freed up a lot of experienced guys and AA used the Flex Rate to fill their ranks.
FX is already doing that with their MTP program(maint training program) guys right of school reinstated from years past. Their goal was to get younger guys in on the ground floor and build experience with low pay..Problem is that a lot of those guys started throwing boxes years ago when the old MTP program was in effect then FX pulled it. So instead of them going out to get A/C experience they stayed throwing boxes now the program is back but these guys are now in their 40's so their experiment is not working out as planned.
Listen ass clown skill can work it got us a 13 dollar an hr raise in 2001 in our very first contract and almost triple my retirement at that time and all the Iam could bring us back was a mediocre contract in fact it was down right piss poor and in the best of airline times this was before the 9/11 attack. They proved that us being tied to unskilled labor was bringing us down. Now the NWA deal was unique NW wanted AMFA gone we were too militant for NW unlike the lapdog industrial unions you seem to promote. It always chapped my ass that I was forced to belong to be in a union with the masses. The dispatchers certainly don't have to worry about that or the pilots or even F/A's. But noooo. We as certificated AMT's cannot even have our own union cuz it pisses off the ramp and stores and whoever. I have been through all that. You don't like AMFA I get it you are on the Ibt payrolll obviously. But in the case of AA I find it funny that the Twu secretary makes more that 2x what an AMT makes there. Speaks volumes to me. You have no defense NONE regarding the Twu.
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Rich Petrovsky selling the IBT! You should have tossed that guy out before he opened his mouth.
He may be anomaly.
Ask the guys out at SFO about him.
Who is paying him to be at Tulsa? I bet that pissed off the guys misrepresented out there for United.
If you vote them in, you get what you deserve.
WOW, what support in Tulsa for the Teamsters, Let me count 1, 2, 3.........
American Airlines Mechanics Rally For Break From TWU
