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Hello All,
My Name is Bill Kline and I work for USairways FSA LL 1725 . I would like to commend Kathy in TUS for her honesty, I to was caught up with the "New Direction" in 2008 I fully supported Rich Delaney and his team. His Campaign Pro...mise to the US airways members was he would and I quote "Arbitrate this terrible Attendance Policy that your company imposed on you" well that was a good stump speech but that was all it was. Because shortly after being elected he withdrew OUR Greivance from the Company.
I am guessing that since he would be signing the same type of aggreement with UA management just a few months later would cause a little bit of a conflict of interest. Lets move on to other campaign promises.. " We are going to aggressively go out and Orgainize to grow our membership" well that was partly true but only after Tim Nelson and others pushed him to do it. we yes we ( I was an orgainizer for DL141 for 2 yrs ) went out and won the Airtran campaign with the help of Gene Beaty and a few others , only to have Rich Delaney turn around and sign a BS agreement with WN to not have a "No Strike Clause" in any future agreement, So after getting 3600 NEW Members Rich pissed them all off by do that and handing them over to DL142. Thanks Rich 2 yrs of hard work down the drain.
The platform they used to Run against the Former Officers is the same thing they have become.. any of this sound familiar.. "wheres your AGC , they never come around and take " sound familiar or how about this. "Canale never comes and speaks to the membership" Hmmmm hey Rich been to a Local Meeting in CLT lately. NOT. Or how about this one.. "There is no reason for such a backlog on so many grievances" Gee that sounds really familiar . and one of the all time Campaign Stump speeches.. Canale spends way to much of the memberships money boozing it up at Conventions. I guess have last years Convention in Hawawii was pretty cheap huh Rich.. When you have an E-board that sits around at E board meetings with a Investment advisor teaching them how to invest there new found wealth off the memberships dime is simply criminal.
The New Direction or whatever the hell they call themselves had their opportunity to make this a better union time to move on 6 yrs was more than enough time to move forward instead Rich and Company have set airline employees backwards with his signing of that Dopey UA contract.
Losing Jobs when a company is making record profits is completely unacceptable. For that I go back to my original thought. "Do your job and elections will take care of themselves " well You nor your henchmen have done your jobs so its time to move on .
For I first apologize to my fellow union brothers and sister for helping to lead us to where we are with these clowns and with that I would like to Endorse
Tim Nelson, Tracy Baldwin Russo, Gene Beaty, Bruce Davis and the rest of the Unified for Change team.
Good Luck to all
Sincerely,
Bill Kline LL 1725 CLT