Decision 2004
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Below is the latest TWU demand that employees of American Airlines lose their jobs.
First, Jim Little removed 50 years of Union Pay and Benefits "without further ratification".Now, Jim is demanding that employees of other AA work groups lose their jobs.
Next thing you know, he will be sending us another letter about "unemployment" and "job losses" under George W. Bush as President. That's pretty good Jim, you and the TWU complain about jobs lost under Bush, and then demand more jobs be lost at AA. :unsure:
Maybe Jim should first give the membership a vote on HIS TWU POSITIONS and see how confident the members are in his leadership policies!!!!!!!!
Jim Little and the TWU Lies:
Jim said the Constitution requires membership ratification of amendments or changes to the Labor Agreement. Then testified in Federal Court the exact opposite position claiming a long standing and reasonable interpretation that the Consitution DOES NOT require membership voting.
Jim said 3200 members did not get PIN numbers to vote on the concessions. Then later said the number was much smaller.
Jim said the only way to have a legitimate ratification is to have a complete re-vote. Then sold us out and signed off without further ratification.
Jim and the TWU were claiming to have saved 12,000 jobs and three maintenance bases. Now they report 18.1 percent of TWU ground workers lost their positions. And that is even before (between December 2002 and April 2004) the upcoming elimination of MCI and STL jobs.
LET ME MAKE MYSELF PERFECTLY CLEAR MR. JAMES C. LITTLE, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO NEEDS TO GO! YOU WORTHLESS POS!!!!!!!
First, Jim Little removed 50 years of Union Pay and Benefits "without further ratification".Now, Jim is demanding that employees of other AA work groups lose their jobs.
Next thing you know, he will be sending us another letter about "unemployment" and "job losses" under George W. Bush as President. That's pretty good Jim, you and the TWU complain about jobs lost under Bush, and then demand more jobs be lost at AA. :unsure:
Maybe Jim should first give the membership a vote on HIS TWU POSITIONS and see how confident the members are in his leadership policies!!!!!!!!
Jim Little and the TWU Lies:
Jim said the Constitution requires membership ratification of amendments or changes to the Labor Agreement. Then testified in Federal Court the exact opposite position claiming a long standing and reasonable interpretation that the Consitution DOES NOT require membership voting.
Jim said 3200 members did not get PIN numbers to vote on the concessions. Then later said the number was much smaller.
Jim said the only way to have a legitimate ratification is to have a complete re-vote. Then sold us out and signed off without further ratification.
Jim and the TWU were claiming to have saved 12,000 jobs and three maintenance bases. Now they report 18.1 percent of TWU ground workers lost their positions. And that is even before (between December 2002 and April 2004) the upcoming elimination of MCI and STL jobs.
LET ME MAKE MYSELF PERFECTLY CLEAR MR. JAMES C. LITTLE, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO NEEDS TO GO! YOU WORTHLESS POS!!!!!!!
Union: Job cuts unequal at American Airlines
Group calls for trims in management; company to review findings
11:04 PM CST on Friday, November 19, 2004
The union representing ground workers at American Airlines Inc. asked the airline Friday to cut management staff to levels equal to job cuts suffered by the group in the past two years.
In a letter to American, the Transport Workers Union asked for more administrative job cuts to prove management had participated fully in the "shared sacrifice" that kept the airline solvent in the spring of 2003.
The union represents about 30,000 ground workers, clerks, mechanics and machinists at the Fort Worth-based carrier.
Having lost several thousand jobs in the past two years, the group also conceded $620 million in annual wages, benefits and productivity improvements, part of a $1.8 billion-a-year cost cutting that kept American out of bankruptcy court.
"Every day on the job, our members see disparities in the way shared sacrifice was implemented," wrote Jim Little, director of the air transport division. "Our members took deeper wage and benefit cuts than management. In many work areas, the ratio of supervisors to union members seems to have increased since 2003."
The union hired an airline consultant this summer to study how management's contribution to the restructuring compared with the union's.
The study found that while American management took appropriate pay cuts, 12.7 percent of management was laid off between December 2002 and April 2004, while 18.1 percent of ground workers lost their positions in the same period.
The airline said it would review the union's findings and work with the TWU.
"We've had a good, ongoing dialogue with our unions and independent employee groups on any number of issues, including management reductions," said Jacquie Young, an American spokeswoman. "Some of the numbers in this release don't seem to match up with what we know, and so we'll go back and compare notes with Jim and the TWU team."
The union demanded action from American, which has cut its employment from more than 100,000 before September 2001 to 80,000 today.
"We are proceeding immediately with our demand that American reduce its management head count because our members continue to watch as their brothers and sisters lose their jobs while management adds to their numbers," Mr. Little wrote in the letter.
He was unavailable for comment Friday, a union spokeswoman said.
American achieved the lowest costs of the traditional network carriers by some measures in spring 2003 when it brokered the new labor contracts and engineered $2.2 billion in annual operational savings. American's three main labor groups structured their concessions especially to preserve their pension benefits.
But with persistently high oil prices, low-cost competition and hundreds of millions in losses ahead, Wall Street analysts predict American will need to cut even further to return to profitability and keep pace with restructuring.
Delta Air Lines Inc. pilots approved $1 billion in annual cuts, and bankrupt United Airlines moved this week to terminate labor agreements and pension plans for its employees.
On Thursday, Continental Airlines Inc. said it needed $500 million in payroll savings and announced across-the-board pay cuts for its top officers. J.P. Morgan Chase analyst Jamie Baker said the move will further pressure American to revisit more cuts and potentially alter pension plans.