Once again you are wrong PTO...the contract AMFA has with NW is still there, it never expires only becomes amendable. AMFA is still the bargaining agent with NW whether you want to admit it or not.
Yea just like them boys at Eastern are giong back to work sometime soon.
You guys are taking this statement out of text. Chas is right that the contract never goes away and that it is amendable. I'm sure you all know this. What good is a contract if you can't enforce it? Let me explain.
Eastern is still an existing company they might only have three or four adminastrative people but the company is still there and so is the contract with the union. What good is it? If someone were to buy the company and get it back into the air I assure you the union will be there waving their contract in Easterns face. I am sure that the new owner of the company or the employees will want to vote as to keep the union there or vote it out or vote in a different union. I am pretty certain the union will be gone.
What does this have to do with Northwest? Well lets see...
These numbers are not factual because I have no way of knowing the exact numbers they are based on percentages of my LMO zone and made to fit the rest of the company. About 40% of the contractors have rolled over and are now NWA employees. There are more that are going to roll over but they are still in the paper stages so we will not count them. These guys have no interest in unions especially the X-AA guys which make up about one third of the force here. They have all said that if they have to pay union objector dues they will quit the company. Now lets say AMFA accepts the concessions offerd by NWA and the mechanics return to work. Only the number of AMT's that are needed to suplement the current workforce will return. There will be great turmoil in the work force and a vote to keep AMFA will be forced. At this time AMFA will be voted off of the property. Thus gone forever from NWA.
If NWA fills all of its mechanics slots and never asks the AMFA AMT's back AMFA is standing outside the fence waving its useless contract.
I say AMFA is gone because it is a dead duck floating in the water. You guys say that it is still here by technicality.
My comment to chas was saying yea there is still a union at Eastern but what good is it.
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