AMFA Informational Live Webinar

[TWU informer]

The AMFA live webinar is on schedule to broadcast on Tuesday October 30, 2012 at 7:00 pm Central Time.

Come and join us at www.amfa-aa.com

We have a great line up of industry AMT's that will be speaking and answering your questions.

We even have a previous IBT Business Agent that will tell you alot about the inner workings of the Reamsters.

You will be able to call in or e-mail your questions and enjoy some great information and use of technology.

We will not knock on your door and bother you at your personal residence, we will spend the time and effort and money to communicate with you at your convenience.

If you are unable to join the live webinar, the video of the meeting will be available to watch when it is convenient for you to view.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

We are very close to requesting an election with the NMB and your help to get there is appreciated.

There is only one Mechanic's Union - AMFA

Thanks
Dave Stewart
Tulsa Based AMFA Organizer
[email protected]

 

[TWU informer]

This for ALL AMT's at ALL Airlines and ALL stations.

 

[TWU informer]

There will be several methods to send in questions during this webinar, we are working hard to insure that this is a success and worthy of your attendance.

See you all there.

 

[odie01]

http://amfanational.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=260955

Press Release: Congratulations Mechanics and Related at Southwest Airlines
Oct 18, 2012 - Posted by: Floyd Looney

Contact:
Floyd Looney
Assistant National Director
(940) 206-8061


October 18, 2012 -- We are proud to announce that on October 18, 2012, the National Mediation Board (NMB) certified the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) as the collective bargaining agent of the Mechanics and Related Employees at Southwest Airlines.

This certification is granted just 21 days following the NMB’s determination that Southwest and AirTran operate as a single transportation system for representation purposes of the Mechanics and Related Employees craft or class. This is great news for all the Mechanics and Related employees at the combined carrier as we will finally be one airline and one union.

Floyd Looney, Assistant National Director for AMFA said, “We are no longer “us” and “them” - We are AMFA and We are Southwest Airlines. This is something that representatives of mechanics and related at both Southwest and AirTran have been working on since 2010, and now it is time to move forward as a unified group. We strive to produce the best maintenance in the business and as a combined group have obtained that right through dedication to our principals.”

The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) is a craft oriented, independent aviation union. It is not an industrial union and represents only airline technicians and related employees in the craft or class in accordance with the National Mediation Board Rules and their dictates. AMFA is committed to elevating the professional standing of technicians and to achieving progressive improvements in the wages, benefits, and working conditions of the skilled craftsmen and women it represents.

Southwest Airlines is one of the best airlines in the industry and AMFA is the best “Aircraft Mechanics and Related” Union in the industry, bar none!

 

[1AA]

Oh I can not wait for the spin doctors to comment on this one.

Congrats to the AMT's at SWA on unity.

We will be next.

 

[TWU informer]

Oh I can not wait for the spin doctors to comment on this one.

Congrats to the AMT's at SWA on unity.

We will be next.

Now we must get ALL MECHANICS into one UNION.
And then we will ALL no longer be "US" and "THEM".
We will no longer be divided and used against one another.

Start now by adding AA

 

[Anomaly]

The AMFA live webinar is on schedule to broadcast on Tuesday October 30, 2012 at 7:00 pm Central Time.

Come and join us at www.amfa-aa.com

We have a great line up of industry AMT's that will be speaking and answering your questions.

We even have a previous IBT Business Agent that will tell you alot about the inner workings of the Reamsters.

You will be able to call in or e-mail your questions and enjoy some great information and use of technology.

We will not knock on your door and bother you at your personal residence, we will spend the time and effort and money to communicate with you at your convenience.

If you are unable to join the live webinar, the video of the meeting will be available to watch when it is convenient for you to view.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

We are very close to requesting an election with the NMB and your help to get there is appreciated.

There is only one Mechanic's Union - AMFA

Thanks
Dave Stewart
Tulsa Based AMFA Organizer
[email protected]

FYI

According to a search of domains owned by the above poster Dave Stewart,

this guy has been trying really hard to sell amfa for many years and now owns and maintains the fake amfa-aa organizing website. This is apparently an unofficial grass roots web site and not directly associated by amfa at all. What else is he trying to sell and why?

http://reversewhois....m/david-stewart

Below is the report for the domain owner of amfa-aa "DAVID STEWART".
Our records show 912 currently registered domains and 877 previously registered domains with that search string in the WHOIS record. The oldest record in our archive for which your search string appears is for the domain WALKINGBOOKSHOP.COM and was captured on 12/15/1999.

 

[TWU informer]

FYI

According to a search of domains owned by the above poster Dave Stewart,

this guy has been trying really hard to sell amfa for many years and now owns and maintains the amfa-aa organizing website. This is apparently an unofficial grass roots web site and not directly associated by amfa at all. What else is he trying to sell and why?

http://reversewhois....m/david-stewart

Below is the report for the domain owner of amfa-aa "DAVID STEWART".
Our records show 912 currently registered domains and 877 previously registered domains with that search string in the WHOIS record. The oldest record in our archive for which your search string appears is for the domain WALKINGBOOKSHOP.COM and was captured on 12/15/1999.

We have been trying to tell you all along that we are grassroots and not paid organizers. Thanks for confirming.

Contrast with the appointed and paid ibt door to door salesmen that euqate to nothing more than Kirby Vacuum sales trying to sell an overpriced POS.

I believe in what I stand in for, they are paid to sell.

Huge difference.

BTW,
I heard Stewart owns the "reamsters.com" domain also.
Also heard he has been undercover following the ibt stooges around in off hours and has some great video and sound to show on the domain.

Just wait until you see what the ibt members have been funding.

preview here
http://www.reamsters.com

 

[Rogallo]

FYI

According to a search of domains owned by the above poster Dave Stewart,

this guy has been trying really hard to sell amfa for many years and now owns and maintains the amfa-aa organizing website. This is apparently an unofficial grass roots web site and not directly associated by amfa at all. What else is he trying to sell and why?

http://reversewhois....m/david-stewart

Below is the report for the domain owner of amfa-aa "DAVID STEWART".
Our records show 912 currently registered domains and 877 previously registered domains with that search string in the WHOIS record. The oldest record in our archive for which your search string appears is for the domain WALKINGBOOKSHOP.COM and was captured on 12/15/1999.

Is that all ya got??

Your really grasping now.!!

 

[swamt]

Thx for the congrats all. However, odie01 should have put this in another thread. It doesn't belong here and is way off this threads topic.

 

[odie01]

Has anyone seen the arbitration transcript from grievance 2045-11 ? Evidently, Lee Seham, AMFA's attorney, got two TWU represented mechanics jobs back with full back pay and VC. If someone has this can you please post.

 

[TWU informer]

Has anyone seen the arbitration transcript from grievance 2045-11 ? Evidently, Lee Seham, AMFA's attorney, got two TWU represented mechanics jobs back with full back pay and VC. If someone has this can you please post.

Indeed and they were OSM's that the TWU claims AMFA will not represent to boot.
The way I understand it was the TWU shop steward that tried to get them fired.

 

[odie01]

Indeed and they were OSM's that the TWU claims AMFA will not represent to boot.
The way I understand it was the TWU shop steward that tried to get them fired.

That's correct, I was given a hard copy but I don't have a scanner. Is their a link to this case?
Grievance 2045-11

Lee Seham for the union twu?
and
Veronica Blakley for the company
This is very good reading and should be quite an eye opener for the mechanics in TULE .

 

[Realityck]

That's correct, I was given a hard copy but I don't have a scanner. Is their a link to this case?
Grievance 2045-11

Lee Seham for the union twu?
and
Veronica Blakley for the company
This is very good reading and should be quite an eye opener for the mechanics in TULE .

HERE IS SOME GOOD READING FOR THE AMT'S IN TULSA AS WELL:


A ALLIED PILOTS ASSOCIATION
P
A December 14,1992


Mr. O. V. Delle-Femine
National Director
Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Assoc.
P. O. Box 39
Fayetteville, GA 30214

Mr. Delle-Femine:

As the senior member of the Allied Pilots Association (APA) Board of Directors, I consider your November 17, 1992 letter to APA President LaVoy nothing more than a personal, political attack on behalf of Messrs. Martin Seham and David W. Gould, APA’S VicePresident.

It is unthinkable that you have the audacity to question the prerogative and right of the President of APA to change General Counsel. Your intrusive meddling into APA's affairs, business, and policy is a most appallingly deceitful and cowardly act. When did our President or Association ever question or meddle in your association's affairs?

Since you have decided to interfere by making erroneous and disparaging political statements against our President and Association, allow me to respond. Mr. Delle-Femine, there are six billion people in this world. It is an amazing coincidence to me that you courtesy-copied your letter only to David W. Gould, the only person who has stated his intentions to lead the recall of President LaVoy. The Vice President has neither a legal say in, nor a vote in the selection of APA's General Counsel. This being the case, the sole purpose for copying Mr. Gould is obvious to even the most naive political observer: to help him undermine President LaVoy.

This is not the first time Mr. Gould has been the ringleader of a political circus. During a Department of Labor-supervised election, Mr. Gould tried to seat himself prior to the election certification, even though the premature-seating was ruled out of order by the parliamentarian and the chair. That fiasco cost the membership approximately $50,000 for the special Board Meeting Mr. Gould's adherents called.

Currently, the smoke screen for Mr. Gould's divisive political agenda is the General Counsel issue. Once again, the membership will foot the bill for Vice President Gould's politicaL activities. Confrontational behavior and zealous, self-righteous ranting seems to have become Mr. Gould's trademark.

Let's examine Mr. Seham's record a little more closely; unlike you, I was there.

1983 CONTRACT

After deregulation, the APA leadership had it's first chance to show their negotiating skills and determination. With Mr. Seham's counsel and help, they created the most anti-union “B Scale” ever devised. The A-Scale pilots' pay would be subsidized by the B-Scale pilots, or, as Mr. Seham said, the A-Scale pilots kept their present level of-pay and benefits" all at the cost of reduced salaries for newly-hired pilots." Essentially, the negotiators and Mr. Seham agreed that professional pilots at American Airlines were worth less than half of their current wages. Next came the classic management tactic of "divide and conquer” in the form of Supplement B, written by Mr. Seham. Basically, Supplement B stipulates that A-Scale and B-Scale pilots shall never be equal. Mr. Seham drafted management’s dream come true - a permanently divided union at a time the Company was under no financial difficulty.

1987 CONTRACT

Having set the stage in 1983, the big payoff for management was the 1987 contract. With the union now divided, APA negotiators agree to gut our work rules, granted a less than one and one-half percent pay raise per year for the A-Scale pilots, and compensation for the B-Scale pilots far below the market level. As the icing on the cake, they gave away our scope clause, to allow management to buy and operate commuter airlines flying up to seventy-seat aircraft. The Company was in an excellent financial position afterAPA negotiated a contract that put our pilots behind in pay and benefits to everyone except Continental Airlines, so senior AMR management rewarded itself with a lucrative stock bonus plan. Mr. Seham called it a victory; for whom was it a victory?

1990 CONTRACT

By this time, senior A-Scale pilots at AAL were flying "wide-body" aircraft for narrow-body pay rates, B-Scale was on the verge of being institutionalized, and management intended to "re- vamp" our medical benefits, once again at the expense of the new-hire pilot. Through a grassroots campaign, which climaxed in the firing of our negotiating committee, we turned things around. In the middle of a recession and war, we negotiated the best contract in seven years, while Mr. Seham had to be dragged along throughout the entire process.

LUMP SUM ARBITRATION: Mr. Seham lost the Lump Sum Benefit arbitration award on the merits of the ease. The arbitrator awarded the benefit “only" to pilots hired prior to 1983 due to Supplement B, which was drafted by Mr. Seham. Four years after creating the B-Scale, one more wedge was driven into the membership by Mr. Seham's hand. It was President LaVoy, while a member of the new negotiating committee, who was able to secure the Lump Sum Benefit for all pilots and bring the members together, not Mr. Seham.

MIA TDY: Mr. Seham lost the MIA TDY arbitration case that was initiated by the former president.

APA EAGLE STRUCTURE: Under Mr. Seham's counsel in 1986, the former negotiating committee gutted our scope clause to allow the Company to buy Eagle commuter airlines. Later in 1987, the former APA president appointed an Ad Hoc committee (two of the members were also negotiators), to determine if Eagle pilots should be APA members and sit on the APA Board of Directors. With the advice and counsel of Mr. Seham, they took in the Eagle pilots and created the structure currently in place.

APA DRUG TESTING AGREEMENT: With Mr. Seham's counsel, his son helped negotiate our drug testing agreement. Mr. Seham boasted how his son did a “bang up job". The Sehams did a bang up job all right, but for managemcnt, not the pilots. The agreement must be an historic first. The union actually negotiated to fire it's own pilots. The agreement includes no rehabilitation for it’s pilots as does other airlines, and is far more restrictive than the government regulation itself. Management loved it so much, they gave this agreement, paid for by our members, to all other employee groups.

Do you think Mr. Crandall is relieved because he does not have to face "the man who beat him at every turn"? Sir, all I can say is, you don't know Mr. Crandall. It is my opinion that he would love to keep Mr. Seham for the next round of negotiations.

After twenty-five years of Mr. Seham's counsel, the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association actively represents no one. Essentially, your union is "on paper" only. Such a record speaks volumes about your choice of counsel.

Sincerely,

Captain Dennis Petretti
Chairman, LGA

 

[swamt]

And who voted on all the contracts since 1983? That would be the majority of the pilots. The pilots had a choice rather to have a B scale or not. They (the pilots) chose themselves to have a B scale. And all this crap happened almost 30 years ago and 99% of it was done by Seham senior not Lee Seham. Nice to see you guys have to go so far back, almost 30 years, to dig something negative up that was all done by Seham senior. I would still keep Seham over the IBT attorneys, seen them both In action as well as head to head, and Seham completely embarrassed Josh M..
Is this all you guys got? Pretty sad when both the TWU and the teamsters has all their negativities currently happening as well as into the future...