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Unions' fight to represent 5,000 mechanics could ease any merger or outsourcing efforts
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Wow, who woulda thunnk it
Hey Don, that's because our membership are idiots!!
Yea based on the teamsters record, we should be dumping the rest of what's left by EOY 2008... :down:
As 'Gump's Mama' would say 'Stupid is as Stupid does'
B) UT
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Besides putting 50 organizers into the fray and knocking on the doors of over 4,000 United mechanics in recent weeks, the Teamsters' effort has been helped by an organizer from the Transport Workers Union, or TWU. The situation is unique in that the TWU also represents aircraft mechanics and belongs to the AFL-CIO, the labor federation that the Teamsters quit several years ago.
Wow, who woulda thunnk it
But Don Wolfel, president of AMFA's Local 4 at United, was less optimistic, saying he feared that neither union would win the vote, leaving the workers without representation.
"Our members really don't take an interest. They are fairly apathetic," he said.
Hey Don, that's because our membership are idiots!!
The Teamsters' organizing mantra, as suggested by Hoffa's talk to the workers, is that the union will stem United's shift of mechanics' jobs to overseas repair sites and that it will fight to regain the pension losses they have suffered due to the airline's bankruptcy.
Yea based on the teamsters record, we should be dumping the rest of what's left by EOY 2008... :down:
As 'Gump's Mama' would say 'Stupid is as Stupid does'
B) UT