AMFADELTA website down, whats the skinny?

[violated]

Its been well over a year since I left Delta and started in a different field, anything change for the better? I hope people will wake up and grow someting between their legs and fight the mismanagement that is steering the company into an iceberg in icy water! Hope the best for those pro-union AMT's, nothing but the worse for those that helped managment in their evil plan to destroy our profession.

------------VIOLATED

 

[DLFlyGirl]

Its been well over a year since I left Delta and started in a different field, anything change for the better? I hope people will wake up and grow someting between their legs and fight the mismanagement that is steering the company into an iceberg in icy water! Hope the best for those pro-union AMT's, nothing but the worse for those that helped managment in their evil plan to destroy our profession.

------------VIOLATED

So what was it you got fired for?

 

[DAL Mech]

So what was it you got fired for?

He wasnt fired if I remember correctly. Just another very pro-union guy that left.

 

[yoyodyne]

He wasnt fired if I remember correctly. Just another very pro-union guy that left.

So he has to be really happy at his new union job right?

 

[DAL Mech]

So he has to be really happy at his new union job right?

Couldn't tell you honestly. There were a bunch of bitter guys at the amfa delta site. I read it but never posted. I hope hes happy.

 

[brokenwrench]

Did you think the site served any purpose?
I.E. Did you think it was a good place to get information or for information sharing?

 

[DAL Mech]

Did you think the site served any purpose?
I.E. Did you think it was a good place to get information or for information sharing?

There was some info but it was mostly pro union guys bashing anti union guys. No wonder AMFA didn't get in at Delta. Every out station just insults every guy in ATL. Calling everyone here rednecks and cracking jokes at our expense sure didn't help the whole situation.

While I was laid off I did look at the site just to see what was happening.

 

[violated]

Hey fellas, No I didn't get fired, almost did a few times but I'm quite glad to say I left on my own terms. The AMFA/DAL site was at first used to share info and help the blind sheep see the light of voting in a union, but yes you are correct people such as myself saw that our efforts that put alot of us on watch by mismanagment for being union organizers, we basically sacrificed our careers at DAL on the line for our brothers in craft, with little or no effect. People where more concerned with free lunches and early outs than securing their future and having a voice. So than the AMFA board became a big vent forum which we basically blame ATG/ATL for killing the drives. Yes many of us left aviation all togther and shifted into new careers, but a few still live on in the ranks at Delta, I wish the best for them. I have to say I'm not making killer money, but I enjoy my work, my benefits and vacation are alot better and future is alot brighter than at Delta. I was stessed from being written up and being suspended all the time, having to watch over my back and than on the top of that wondering if I will be working the next week! But other than that I'm pretty happy, as much as a bitter ex-dal employee can be! :down:

 

[DalMD88]

I really think the union drive at DL came to an end very quickly after 9/11. Before that many of the never union guys I worked with on midnights were signing cards. After that Tuesday everyone just seemed to be thankful they still had a job.

I personally don't think I was ever a target of local management. Sure my forman knew I was pro AMFA. I think even though he had a widget butt tatoo, he would have given the union a second guess at that time. I did get tired of trying to talk my coworkers into the benifits of a contract. The worst thing is none of them could offer up much of an argument. Even when I threw the mortgage/car loan/boat loan contract vs no income contract at them all they could say is, but I don't want a union. Most would end it right there with nothing more to add. A few would come back with the unions protect the lazy line. My retort was why does So and so still have a job in our non union shop?

The guys in ATL were a bunch of sheep for the most part. Up until the mid 90's that is all Delta would hire. My self and a good friend interviewed with Delta in late 90. We both had BS degrees from ERAU. He was AMT/Avionics I had AMT/Managment. Neither of us got hired. Delta hired two AMT's that fall from ERAU. Both were very strange we thought.

I went back home and worked for a regional airline. They ofcourse went belly up which led to some more regional job hops. Then in 98 I interviewed once again with DL and was hired. My friend was hired by NW, out of college, for a JFK Avionics position. When years later he quit NW he resigned as Director of DC-10 Overhaul. He quit to take the VP of Safety job at Alaska after the Pacific MD80 crash. Since then he has moved into consulting.

Why didn't DL hire us back then? I think both of us had a brain and were willing to use it. Sure we had differnent ambitions, but we both were free thinkers. A poor quailty in the mind of the shrink we interviewed with. That mind set is what has kept the unions out of Delta. I know of a couple of other guys in Tech Ops that were turned away when I was, only to be hired later. We all have open minds, but we are in the minority, especially in the ATL hangar.

 

[DAL Mech]

I really think the union drive at DL came to an end very quickly after 9/11. Before that many of the never union guys I worked with on midnights were signing cards. After that Tuesday everyone just seemed to be thankful they still had a job.

I personally don't think I was ever a target of local management. Sure my forman knew I was pro AMFA. I think even though he had a widget butt tatoo, he would have given the union a second guess at that time. I did get tired of trying to talk my coworkers into the benifits of a contract. The worst thing is none of them could offer up much of an argument. Even when I threw the mortgage/car loan/boat loan contract vs no income contract at them all they could say is, but I don't want a union. Most would end it right there with nothing more to add. A few would come back with the unions protect the lazy line. My retort was why does So and so still have a job in our non union shop?

The guys in ATL were a bunch of sheep for the most part. Up until the mid 90's that is all Delta would hire. My self and a good friend interviewed with Delta in late 90. We both had BS degrees from ERAU. He was AMT/Avionics I had AMT/Managment. Neither of us got hired. Delta hired two AMT's that fall from ERAU. Both were very strange we thought.

I went back home and worked for a regional airline. They ofcourse went belly up which led to some more regional job hops. Then in 98 I interviewed once again with DL and was hired. My friend was hired by NW, out of college, for a JFK Avionics position. When years later he quit NW he resigned as Director of DC-10 Overhaul. He quit to take the VP of Safety job at Alaska after the Pacific MD80 crash. Since then he has moved into consulting.

Why didn't DL hire us back then? I think both of us had a brain and were willing to use it. Sure we had differnent ambitions, but we both were free thinkers. A poor quailty in the mind of the shrink we interviewed with. That mind set is what has kept the unions out of Delta. I know of a couple of other guys in Tech Ops that were turned away when I was, only to be hired later. We all have open minds, but we are in the minority, especially in the ATL hangar.

After what happened at NW, you still support the whole AMFA idea? Really?