After watching this thread quietly for the last several weeks I thought I'd chime in and offer some perspective from the position of someone who has thrown out the iam at my carrier
Nothing New Here - The "doom & gloom" stories haven't changed and the anti-AMFA rhetoric is the same tired cliche' we often heard at UAL
Same Players, Same Game - The naysayers engage in the same juvenile tactics. Claim to be supporters as if that would in any way disguise their true intentions/motivations, and then when exposed, they laughingly attempt to claim some sort of victory because you responded, while ignoring the fact they are only displaying their own childishness - we had them at UAL too
5 Drives - At United, I was a part of 5 AMFA drives to remove the iam - we failed each and every time .... right up until the drive we won - As long as you learn from the failures of previous drives, you will eventually prevail. At UAL, we had to overcome see-through ballots (before electronic voting) dead and retired voting, and stacking the list with analysts and controllers etc ... which we eventually collected cards from which led to our victory over the iam
FYI - don't let cards 1 year shelf life be used to try and sway fence sitters - the UAL drives averaged between 15-17 months. At the 1 year mark, all cards don't suddenly drop dead - only those first signed do ... and as many of you already know, those cards first signed, are the always the easiest to get resigned.
Stay the course AA MX, and you WILL get to choose your representation