"Not every communication technique is traceable..... Let's look at the groups that are NOT directly under BK Court control......All of the above are tools that AMFA could have used."
And in your last sentence is the fatal weakness. AMFA does come under the court and if shown to "have used" these techniques, its leaders would have been enjoined from continuing and been subject to the courts punishment
See I too know a little about taking on a power structure and prevailing. I was involved in a grass roots movement.... to stop a power company from building a pumping station .... raised $64,000.... won the referendum .... Effective use of the media...."Hired" ..Abbie Hoffman to be .."consultant"... got us on the national ..news!...built a coalition...dumped 10 tons of horse manure on the court house steps... had over 100 people occupy the Court House for 48 days...got ourselves arrested at the site .... lady in a wheelchair being handcuffed....Peter Jennings let the world see that! ... we still prevailed. Those ..in leadership..transferred our assets to ..relatives ... just in case...disrupted ..commissioner meetings.
Congratulations
Piney Bob - and I mean it. You
openly used every modern method of obstructionism, civil disobedience, public relations, etc., as a means to an end. But that is not the course you recommended that AMFA undertake in your prior post.
Better savor your victory over AMFA because it could be short lived. Suppose your ham handed assualt on the AMFA steels the resolve of all the other workgroups? How many days can NWA survive being grounded before it is forced to liquidate or negotiate? If that happens maybe the AMFA is back on the property?
Might be easier for Pilots, AMT's, Rampers & F/A's to replace their pay & benefits level than it would be for the mid to high level drones that populate HQ. I mean how marketable is a person who participated in destroying a company that didn't have to die? I don't know, do you?
PB, First off, I am not in any way connected with NW so I am not a "victor". Like you, I too am a FF; and also I am a former military pilot, a once-retired but still active businessman and an aviation lover. From your profile, you have been a poster on this USAviation board for a long time; but your now very frequent posts on the NW Forum have been more recent and it is obvious you are not yet familiar with the work background of other spirited and opinionated posters.
The majority of the current posters here are connected to AA. Many are AMT who support the effort to oust TWU and install AMFA. Some are AMT supporters of TWU who relish the fix that AMFA is in at NW. There are other AA retired line employees, FA, mid-management, ex-TWA, flight operations, ets., who chime in.
The minority (in both numbers and posts) are a combination of the NW replacement workers (scabs), NW line IAM employees, NW mid-management, NW flight crew, a few strong union supporters from OAL and interested outsiders like you and me. [I once posted a list of the AA AMT posters; but it seems to have disappeared].
Don't paint all of us who challange some of the pro-union posts with the brush of being NW management. I am interested in and concerned about the future of commercial aviation and the airlines of the U.S. IMO, there have been excesses in the structural costs embedded in the industry over the years of regulation followed by deregulation. These include excess management, over staffing, feather-bedding, etc. It seems that these are now finally being addressed in the crisis of failing airlines.
I'm sorry it has to come to a strike and the training and hiring of replacements. But these are all legal actions on the part of the employees through their union and by the company in anticipation of and after a strike. 'Good Faith' bargaining does not preclude preparation for a "strike", "work stoppage", "withholding of services". Nor does it constitute 'union-busting'. AMFA 'shot crap' and it appears to have come up with 'snake eyes'.
I am not going to argue whether or not you are a good mechanic. Nor am i going to deny that experience can greatly reduce trouble-shooting time. I will argue that you can easily be replaced with someone equivalent as you or can easily be up to speed in just a year or two.
