wrx said:
I wish that the flight attendants had the balls you guys do to get rid of your current union the TWU and bring in a new union the AMFA. The APFA needs to go as well. Hopefully after you guys succeed, maybe the flight attendants can do the same and get rid of the APFA.
Check your history, you guys left the TWU more than twenty years ago. For the most part you have done pretty well, at least you have the right to change the leadership, choose your representatives and vote on your contract, things that you really did not have under the TWU.
Hey if you're really that upset you could always go to the AFA. Seems to me that a little consolidation is warranted anyway. Flight attendants are in all sorts of different unions, the APFA. PFAA, AFA,TWU and others I believe. The AFA is having problems, problems that could probably be fixed if all the flight attendants in the entire industry were in it.
There is no doubt that the entire labor movement in this industry is going through some major restructuring, and its long overdue. If our leaders had any foresight they would have started this twenty years ago when the industry went deregulated, instead they resisted, and we have all suffered as a result.
The worst part of this is that the lost opportunities of twenty years ago mean that the changes will be brought about in a way that is convulsive, it will leave the labor movement, that just basically got busted, expending its energies fighting itself instead of the companies. Our failed leaders have turned our unions into "company unions", more concerned about the profits of the airlines and their own Treasuries than the standard of living for the members who toil for the airlines.
Getting back to the topic,
Did anyone bring up who gave the OK for the $6000 ad in The Chief attacking the NYC Transit workers President?