But let me tell you something. We are setting the bar for the future. Those flight attendants in negotiations for United and Continental as well as those of USair are keeping a keen eye on us. Whatever we get in this round of negotiation will set the tone for theirs. Those airlines will not be able to hide behind bankruptcy law to gut contracts. Even non-union Delta will soon align its pay scale to that of AA in the hope that their flight attendants will not vote in a union.
I wish more of the people on the TWU M&R Negotiating committee saw it that way as well. Once again we sold out, now the M&R TWU members are left with the decision to send the sellouts back to the table or accept another five year concessionry deal. I hope they too realize that as unionists we are responsible for setting the tone and raising the bar. When I see stuff like this its easy to understand why you guys left so many years ago.
Hey Goodgirl, higher Mechanic wages? We are one up from the bottom, we earn around $400/ week less than SWA. The only ones lower than us is USAIR, and their low wages dont seem to be helping them either.What good is paying 40% less when you have to hire twice as many people in order to get anything done?