aapitbull
Veteran
Thank you, its good to see that some of the people who argued against our AMFA drive finally understand the problem. those of us who ran the AMFA drive understood that AMFA had its on set of problems but we believed the constitution would give us a chance to fix them and maybe build something we could be proud of.Even if the Teamsters had interest in American, I'm certain we would end up in the same situation we are now due to corporate payoffs as they're not exactly known for their above-board operations. AMFA has proven to be the same as the TWU re: dealings with the company, otherwise the debacle of NWA would have have been handled in a totally manner from its outset.
Organizing an Independent union, like the other two choices, still relies on the honesty of the installed officers to work for the membership and not be sneaking around the corporate offices looking for a handout. The same yahoos will gravitate to positions of authority within whatever is assembled and it'll probably be the same ones we have now - you know, the ones that put us in this situation. We'd be back where we were even after a lot of work.
We're left with non-trustworthy entities bargaining "for" us "against" a corporation that is no different. Penalties cannot be made severe enough (legally) to stop the behavior of the TWU's officers such as Burchette, Yingst, and now Luis with his unannounced (yet listed on the International's website) appointment to Int. VP.
Shut it down - last one out, hit the lights.
The most important point to remember is there was no way to fix what we had and while the other options where not perfect something had to be done, the current T/A has just confirmed what we thought all along and by the way the NWA thing was just as you said a failure of those elected to make the right decisions when the time came. If your ever in dallas email me and I will buy you a beer or your drink of choice and kick it around just for sh@ts & grins