btw weez, exactly how are you guys going to get the company to toss in even more? Stockholders may tolerate parker offering us what he did but he isnt going to put his job on the line when this company is already wobbling.
But AMFA is fighting the good fight and thanks to their lies that American AMTs are going to $55 an hour in January. Instead of going to $54 and hour as a lead, I will stay at $46.77, and lose my $56,000 in backpay but by golly they are doing a better job , than your evil association. Go Figure ! 🙂
I would hope, after seeing the proposals, that this asso. does not agree to mediation in sec 6 this early. Way too many items left open. Way too many differences from both sides, it would NOT be good for the entire membership. Get as many articles T/A'd as possible with only a minimum left to go into mediation. IMO a mediator would simply pick and choose to go LAA or LUS way of doing things and having a third party do that is suicidal.
You don't have to start all over, however, I will almost guarantee you the company will take full advantage of stalling further by opening them all up, just like our company did here in order to stall out over the 5 year pay freeze they wanted. But you are correct, they (both sides) have the options to leave well enough alone. In our case many of the articles co. wanted to open went straight back to book after months of discussions and going back and forth. All the while the co. never wanted change, just a tactic to stall longer is all.
Pretty sure we went long enough. You have now heard from numerous members on here about the lack of information about nego's. We made our point I do believe.
M&M, This is what I was telling CB. Not enough info. They always just listed the article that was T/A'd. They never post what the changes were or are. I honestly think they wanted this way so to confuse and allow most to skim over the changes and miss a lot of changes and info in hopes of getting a yes vote. You guys will have to really read diligently thru the JCBA.
like it or not, you will hear from me as you are destroying our contract due to personal gain.
This is when they lost what leverage they had. With that said pay raise the company got what they needed, permission for both sides to work metal with no grievances filed against them. Otherwise they would have been left in a jam, probably would have had all kinds of O/T and down lines out the ying yang in order to keep the birds flying. It really was the only leverage the union would have had to get these nego's done sooner. I foresee now it going 2-3 more years, just guessing.
Nobody needs to be prodded or poked into pointing our the injustices and incompetence of what is the Association.
Get even more???? At this point they are trying to get them to take less.We are all going to lose something with this contract.....travesty
I've heard the words "New direction" before. I pray we get better results with the Weez's version
Shhhh you are supposed to be a loyal union follower and just do what they tell you to
