Yea we heard about the fear tactics. Why does everyone buy this bull about Singapore and China? Those bases are there to fix their airplanes. What makes anyone think that all of a sudden they could handle all our airplanes and Uniteds just like that? Besides have you seen Chinese tools? What do they think they all traded in their chop sticks for Snap-Ons and are over there waiting for our airplanes? If our planes were going over to Singapore then why would someone want to buy our bases? What would they do with hangars on an airport in Tulsa, Alliance and KC? If AA wants to get rid of them then why did they just build one and buy the other? If somebody else did buy them would''nt they need mechanics too? Hell if some company had the money to buy all three bases then that company would be in a hell of a lot better shape than AA. Maybe they would be better off if someone bought them.
The fact is that UAL has preceeded us into BK by 5 months. They rejected an agreement that was not nearly as bad as ours. In fact some of what UAL was asking for we gave away in 1983! The judge slammed them with a 14% temporary cut and nothing else.He didnt even force them to accept the concessions that we gave away 20 years ag😵ur union wants to save us from this fate by accepting a 17.5% cut along with almost completely gutting our contract, and agreeing to this for 6 years. I dont know but a temprorary 14% cut does not seem as bad as a 17.5% cut along with massive other cuts and a six year term. Maybe I''m not seeing "the big picture", but I think I''ve seen enough to know what is right.
If you guys reject this, I think we can prevent the company from seeking or a judge from granting extreme requests. At the very least we will have five months before we have to make a decision. Five months may put us at the end of the war and the Summer might help revenues. If the company requests everything they are threatening and the Judge grants them, we will shut the company down. Hell we will be luckey if we can stop the guys from doing it before then. Knowing this the Judge likely will not grant this but tell us to work on a deal. Six years, given the history of this industry gives us a reasonable motive for rejection.If they can make threats then so can we. If they can threaten to "ship all the work to Singapore and sell all the bases and layoff half the workforce then WE CAN SHUT THEM DOWN FOR GOOD! Ok.Hey CARTY,ARPEY!! Once you violate the contract, and change our pay, even with a judges permission WE CAN SHUT YOU DOWN, AND WE WILL!!!! Go ahead and make all your threats to the weak willed Presidents council. Why dont you come and say that crap directly to us out on the line? Ask Brewster and whatever that guys name was that came to JFK how we trembled. "We will fire all of you" they said. "FU go ahead"was the reply. "We will pull all the work out" they threatened. "Go ahead and you can pay me the 12-5 to go where I can afford to live" they answered. I beleive that both were told to perform sexual acts upon themselves. These guys are not afraid to work, they help this company move a lot of people. Now if you could just sell them seats at the right price we could stop all this BS and make some money! Just because they will work like a dog does not mean you can treat them like a dog. Everyday when I drive home from work, I crawl along in traffic where over 90% the cars are newer than mine. I dont think that they are all driving to the unemployment office.
Dont cave in to threats. Lets do the work, and hope that after we go into BK we get people who want to make money together by providing a quality product effeciently at a fair price instead of those who simply want to take money out of our pockets.
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