The IAM only asked the District Court to order the arbitration to move forward and filed briefs with the bankruptcy court to prevent Mitchell from stopping it.
700, that's a lie. The IAM is the 'sand castle whore'.
The IAM has been pimping all over this arbitration and presenting themselves as 'high priced prostitutes' on the streetcorners of the Sand Castle. These Union Bosses are walking around with 'sand between their legs'. The whole entire negotiations team has prostituted themselves in a full blown type of way. They should all resign after bringing back such a horrendous violation of the workers.
Tell the truth 700 and stop with your 'greasy slimy' lies and distortions.
The IAM did much more. Myself, and 'others on this board' actually talked to the arbitrators secretary and I can assure you that after the Judge said on March 31st that the arbitration should move forward and in 'expeditious fashion', there was a date set, I believe it was May 15th if I remember correctly. Boss Canale even sent out letter that he would handle things expeditiously and ran his mouth to this affect. It didn't happen.
However, the Union Bosses and US AIRWAYS decided and 'agreed' to execute their own plan. Their Plan wasn't Plan A but Plan B. It didn't include arbitration at all and the IAM UNION BOSSES agreed with the company to eliminate the arbitation in return for positive space travel for union bosses and other key items.
The B Plan was the one where the UNION BOSSES and US AIRWAYS Bosses agreed to shelve the arbitration up to an additional 6 months while they devised a 'devilish scheme' to eliminate the arbitration altogether and instead offer fleet service the opportunity to eliminate its profit sharing plan and to eliminate practically all the benefits of the west coast guys, and also hammer fleet service with an additonal 2 years tacked on to a bankruptcy contract. This plan was also executed by Boss Canale's stooges going to the workplace and talking down to them about the arbitration and even their own worth. Parker even participated in "Town Halls' where he intentionally engaged in talk about the arbitration in every meeting so the employees would continue to hear how the arbitration wasn't worth squat. This was all part of the plan to eliminate arbitration altogether as behind the scenes company attorneys were going to court pleading with judges how an arbitration award would cause 'severe harm' to stakeholders. Imagine that even as Parker told CLT that 'we believe it is worth nothing'.
700, when the sand castle prostitutes [insert IAM BOSSES HERE] went out and tried to sell this contract, they said things like, "If you vote this down then the company is just going to say F*** you." Even as this contract was getting shot down, the IAM Bosses spoke as the enemy. Who cares what the company sez, they been saying that forever, now it's own employees are saying "ok, we will carry this to the end and screw any idea about transitions until you recognize labor and give us a contract with dignity and respect." Reading many of the emails I have received have led me to believe your company will experience 'great pain' in its attempt to get a transition if it doesn't recognize and respect its workers. And if it insist on burning money by keeping things separate, then the contract for the east comes up in 16 months, while the brothers and sisters on the west will already be in section 6 negotiations. Even the IAM said they can force the company to the table for the west coast brothers and sisters.
Further, US AIRWAYS NEEDS to transition. Parker said regarding the Delta merger, "...the synergies are best when operations combine...one set of labor contracts." Boss Canale said, "US AIRWAYS can not participate in another merger until it has agreements in place with the machinists union."
I have grave concern about these Union bosses to make such a horrible deal to violate its members, so it remains VERY important for fleet service to stay networked. Hopefully, the M & R are seeing this and establishing their own trees of communication.
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