Destruction Of Our Profession

[Checking it Out]

Aviation workers are under attack like never before in the history of the industry. In the last few Years, several major airlines have entered bankruptcy others are preparing for or threatening to enter bankruptcy. Aviation workers are being forced to sacrifice to save their company and jobs.


Trying to capitalize on all the unrest in the industry, an anti-worker enterprise known as the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) is assisting Airline management. This same tactic was used before The Wagner bill! Known as the National Labor Relations Act, which was enacted in 1935 to help stop the injustice. They are attempting to erase more than sixty-five years of collective bargaining advances for the Mechanic & Related employees throughout the aviation industry. On top of this! They are expanding with the control of the McCormick Group and Attorney Seham to include Fleet Service Clerks (AGW) and Flight Attendants (PFAA).



AMFA is the most destructive force against airline employees since Frank Lorenzo. This organization has changed the Labor Contracts with the Airlines for decades to come and will stop at nothing to achieve their objective.

Divert monies to the McCormick group which has no accountability!!!! Ask the three Airlines currently under amfa why they are making little or no headway in Negotiations. Where is the professionals amfa gurrantees? Oh! I forgot after they bleed you dry they charge you for their services!!!!!! :down:

 

[Bob Owens]

Aviation workers are under attack like never before in the history of the industry. In the last few Years, several major airlines have entered bankruptcy others are preparing for or threatening to enter bankruptcy. Aviation workers are being forced to sacrifice to save their company and jobs.


Trying to capitalize on all the unrest in the industry, an anti-worker enterprise known as the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) is assisting Airline management. This same tactic was used before The Wagner bill! Known as the National Labor Relations Act, which was enacted in 1935 to help stop the injustice. They are attempting to erase more than sixty-five years of collective bargaining advances for the Mechanic & Related employees throughout the aviation industry. On top of this! They are expanding with the control of the McCormick Group and Attorney Seham to include Fleet Service Clerks (AGW) and Flight Attendants (PFAA).



AMFA is the most destructive force against airline employees since Frank Lorenzo. This organization has changed the Labor Contracts with the Airlines for decades to come and will stop at nothing to achieve their objective.

Divert monies to the McCormick group which has no accountability!!!! Ask the three Airlines currently under amfa why they are making little or no headway in Negotiations. Where is the professionals amfa gurrantees? Oh! I forgot after they bleed you dry they charge you for their services!!!!!! :down:

Al Blackman, you know the #1 guy on the seniority lists says that we had more before the TWU got here than we have now. Since Al has been here at AA for 63 years he is the only one around who can say first hand what the story is. Al signed an AMFA card.

Frank Lorenzo's goal was not to do away with jobs, it was to cut wages and benifits, just like the TWU!

The enimies of labor do not want to make us all unemployed, they want to make us all work for less, just like the TWU!

Northwest did not put out a statement thanking AMFA for "assisting management", however American Airlines put out one thanking the TWU!

AMFA has changed contracts for decades to come? Funny but NWA still has the same contract, ours was changed. How did AMFA change our contract? How did AMFA change any contract over the last year? Clearly you have your Unions confused. It is the TWU that lowered the bar with B-scale, Flex Rates, Prefunding, Flex benifits, OSMs, junior fleet service clerks, stright time pay for training after shift, employee paid uniform cleaning, one week of vacation for new hires, no holidays, and on and on. Other airlines will not tell their employees that "we have to match NWA, SWA, or even the IAM negotiated cuts at UAL or Usair. Other carriers will point to AA and say "THAT IS WHY YOU MUST WORK FOR LESS! BECAUSE WE CANT COMPETE WITH AA UNLESS YOU DO."

 

[PDiddyQuill]

Frank Lorenzo's goal was not to do away with jobs, it was to cut wages and benifits, just like the TWU!


Whoa biggest boy...who has cut the most jobs? Ah believe, and correct me if I get this wrong there Wally...amfa has now 45% less people working than prior to their takeover at NWA. And you want to parallel TWU with Lorenzo..c'mon man..admit your foolishness...amfa has always had the Lorenzo attitude..you know biggun..more $$$ for less mechs...

damn shame ya lost that $800 a month...have ya resorted to soup yet mah big bruddah man?..HAHAHAHA...possibly ya can move to another outpost where no one knows ya..then run for burgerman...HAHAHAHAHA...ooopsy...gotta wait a year for that also...HAHAHAHA

 

[Superside]

Aviation workers are under attack like never before in the history of the industry. In the last few Years, several major airlines have entered bankruptcy others are preparing for or threatening to enter bankruptcy. Aviation workers are being forced to sacrifice to save their company and jobs.


Trying to capitalize on all the unrest in the industry, an anti-worker enterprise known as the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) is assisting Airline management. This same tactic was used before The Wagner bill! Known as the National Labor Relations Act, which was enacted in 1935 to help stop the injustice. They are attempting to erase more than sixty-five years of collective bargaining advances for the Mechanic & Related employees throughout the aviation industry. On top of this! They are expanding with the control of the McCormick Group and Attorney Seham to include Fleet Service Clerks (AGW) and Flight Attendants (PFAA).



AMFA is the most destructive force against airline employees since Frank Lorenzo. This organization has changed the Labor Contracts with the Airlines for decades to come and will stop at nothing to achieve their objective.

Divert monies to the McCormick group which has no accountability!!!! Ask the three Airlines currently under amfa why they are making little or no headway in Negotiations. Where is the professionals amfa gurrantees? Oh! I forgot after they bleed you dry they charge you for their services!!!!!! :down:

CIO,
You quote the Wagner Act. Well did you even read it or did the PR company tell you to just throw it out there in attempt to "Blind 'em with bull###t in stead of Baffling 'em with Brillence?

READ THIS. AND NOTE THE HIGHLIGHTED AREA!

Important Trade Union Legislation

The Wagner Act (1935) guaranteed workers the right to join unions and required each firm to bargain with a union formed by a majority of it’s workers. The National Labor Union (NLRB) was established to enforce the provisions of the Wagner Act

By far the most important labor legislation of the 1930s was the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935. More popularly known as the Wagner Act, after its sponsor, Sen. Robert F. Wagner (NY-D).
The NLRA was applicable to all firms and employees in activities affecting interstate commerce with the exception of agricultural laborers, government employees, and those persons subject to the Railway Labor Act.
It guaranteed covered workers the right to organize and join labor movements, to choose representatives and bargain collectively, and to strike. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), originally consisting of three members appointed by the President, was established by the Act as an independent Federal agency.
The NLRB was given power to determine whether a union should be certified to represent particular groups of employees, using such methods as it deemed suitable to reach such a determination, including the holding of a representation election among workers concerned.
Employers were forbidden by the Act from engaging in any of the five categories of unfair labor practices. Violation of this prohibition could result in the filing of a complaint with the NLRB by a union or employees. After investigation, the NLRB could order the cessation of such practices, reinstatement of a person fired for union activities, the provision of back pay, restoration of seniority, benefits, etc. An NLRB order issued in response to an unfair labor practice complaint was made enforceable by the Federal courts.
Among those unfair labor practices forbidden by the Act were:


1 ) Dominating or otherwise interfering with formation of a labor union, including the provision of any financial or other support.
*A lawsuit had to be filed and pusued by AMFA to stop interference at AA in 1999.(insert by Superside)

2) Interfering with or restraining employees engaged in the exercise of their rights to organize and bargain collectively.


3) Imposing any special conditions of employment which tended either to encourage or discourage union membership. The law stated, however, that this provision should be construed to prohibit union contracts requiring union membership as a condition of employment in a company -- a provision which, in effect, permitted the closed and union shops. (In the former, only pre-existing members of the union could be hired, in the latter. new employees were required to join the union.)

4) Discharging or discriminating against an employee because he had given testimony or filed charges under the Act.

5) Refusing to bargain collectively with unions representing a company's employees.

THE WAGNER BILL WAS WRITTEN TO STOP COMPANIES FROM PUNISHING THE WORKERS FOR ATTEMPTING TO ORGANIZE, JOIN OR ASSOCIATE WITH ANY ORGANIZED LABOR ENTITY!

NOW TELL US WHEN AND WHERE SPECIFICALLY AMFA HAS DONE ANYTHING TO WIPE OUT THIS LEGISLATION!!!!
UNDER THIS ACT OR PARTS OF IT, WE THE MECHANICS AND RELATED ARE GOING TO RID OUR SELVES OF THE "MILL STONE" AROUND OUR NECKS....
THE TWU!!!!

PS: Source of the information above>The Wagner Act

 

[PDiddyQuill]

WE THE MECHANICS AND RELATED ..ya still can't say just us and our buds...HAHAHAHA..you so impotent...

 

[Superside]

WE THE MECHANICS AND RELATED ..ya still can't say just us and our buds...HAHAHAHA..you so impotent...

Well alright...If it'll make ya a happy QUACKER.

"JUST US AND OUR BUDS, in Mechanics and Related"......
There, Happy now? signed, SUPERSIDE

 

[TonyB]

AMFA is the most destructive force against airline employees since Frank Lorenzo. This organization has changed the Labor Contracts with the Airlines for decades to come and will stop at nothing to achieve their objective.

Now I know CIO is just a plain, common pathological liar !

Go back to your supervisorfor further instructions, CIO!


Frank Lorenzo would be proud of what the TWU did in April '03 when the TWU not AMFA set the labor movement back 50 years!

Association of
Fearful
Liars
Corrupt and
Inept
Organization

TWU LLC, a wholely owned subcidiary of AMR corporation! :down: :down:

 

[Stop the Bus..I Want Off!!]

My definition of destruction:
Multi-tier wage scales for mechanics
Introduction of a "B" rate mechanic
Sick days at 1/2 pay
5 paid holidays a year
1 Week of December off unpaid
Having a union known as the most "docile" in the industry
Having to bend over at every request by the company because in 50+ years you never negotiated a scope clause worthy of saving jobs.
THANKS FOR LEADING THE INDUSTRY twu............................

Keep the Faith.............AMFA NOW!!!!!!!

 

[PDiddyQuill]

Wasn't it the TWU in '83 that asked the membership to turn down the B-scale? Wasn't it the membership that voted it in by a whopping 83%? Did that vote not in turn allow AA to grow significantly....and now ya want to thank the TWU....ya need spanked in a non-sexual manner! ...HAHAHAHA

 

[PDiddyQuill]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Buck]

Wasn't it the TWU in '83 that asked the membership to turn down the B-scale? Wasn't it the membership that voted it in by a whopping 83%? Did that vote not in turn allow AA to grow significantly....and now ya want to thank the TWU....ya need spanked in a non-sexual manner! ...HAHAHAHA

I do not know the answer to your question.

If we use the theory that the membership voted against the union leaderships recommendation, then what is wrong with repeating it again?

 

[Stop the Bus..I Want Off!!]

Actually the b scale mechanic was the twu's idea and was suppose to last only 3 years. Ask the old timers as I did. You don't think I would just believe anything you post?? That is why the twu is getting ready to lose the mechanic and related at AA. You can't trust the twu anymore. It takes 100 truths to negate a lie. twu, you're way behind...........................

twu, the Wal-Mart of our profession......................man that's some funny stuff!!!!!

Keep the Faith................Vote AMFA
Local 12 Assoc. member

 

[PDiddyQuill]

don't believe everything ya read? ya sure post as if ya do..HAHAHAHA. And are the ole boys ya asked telling the truth or to ashamed to admit they too vvoted it in. I mean..I only spoke with the ole pres. that was in then..what would he know ....HAHAHAHA..

 

[Hopeful]

I guess PDIDDY's view outsourcing work doesn't include starting in 1983, the TWU took work fom the mechanic and gave it to the line cargo people with pushbacks. Then later on, the TWU rewarded the cabin service people with deicing the aircraft. Then non-licensed SRP's came along to take more work as the TWU union dues payers numbers grew.

PDIDDY's is right, TWU really knows how to perserve work. JUst not for the mechanic.

 

[j7915]

I guess PDIDDY's view outsourcing work doesn't include starting in 1983, the TWU took work fom the mechanic and gave it to the line cargo people with pushbacks. Then later on, the TWU rewarded the cabin service people with deicing the aircraft. Then non-licensed SRP's came along to take more work as the TWU union dues payers numbers grew.

PDIDDY's is right, TWU really knows how to perserve work. JUst not for the mechanic.

When are y'all going to demand that the CEO/CFO positions be filled by amts?

Or is that something the TWU outsourced also?