Roach didn't have a clue. I circled AirTran and we won that in 14 months. The reason why I circled it was that it was all tied in together with reservations and Airtrain never thought I could pull it off. Jerry Glass tried to clobber me on that drive but I made sure I went to the NMB and sat next to his F&H Solution woman and watched her bury her head in her papers. This win, preserved all unions on the ground at Southwest. AirTran would have been used to bleed Southwest unions into submission. But yea, I won all 5 organizing drives I organized. I was the only director ever who all the voters knew. The Teamsters tried unsuccessfully to organize AirTran for 10 years, losing massively. The IAM under stasis was a complete disaster. Losing everything with a big goose-egg. Just like the previous 20 years before I came along and won 45,000 IAM members. It became aggravating because as I organized thousands, we had very very stupid AGC's and Presidents who were just politicians and didn't know the first thing about negotiations or representation.
I am the Lebron James of Union Organizing. After we win the INTL election, I'll clean up and win Boeing SC and Airbus Alabama fairly easy. The Delta stew campaign may become interesting but I'll eliminate the JetBlue organizing madness. I'm also not convinced of the Delta ramp but I'll have to see if we made any commitment to them.
