dfw maintenance at a glance

[dfw gen]

Ok lets start with thanksgiving the holiday work list was totally screwed up EVERYONE was forced to work and then charged on the holiday work list. They kinda sorta fixed the list the friday before christmas. They did not post the updated holiday work list u ntill monday for Christmas on Thursday. There solution was to call the guys affected and tell them they had to work. You woukd think...
ok Saturday 12/27 the list for new years is not up yet. Kind of tough making plans when you don't know
you would think. ....
now the shift bid is supposed to take effect on January 18th I beleive. The company wants to extend the bid and the rumor is they are till like February or march nothing in writing yet...
you would think....
now about the bid when we bid vacations they did not leave enough weeks so a lot of junior people got Jan, Feb and march vacation.
You would think...
a little common courtesy in making plans for vacation would be nice if you knew your days off.
the reason actually rumor because there is no communication on the bid extension is that they don't know how to man for the banking complex in march. who know?
You would think....
that with an important schedule change you would want your people behind you? Possibly go a little out of your way to make some semblance of peace?
You woukd think.... no maybe we think too much!

We do have a manager that has done more to unify dfw then any union rep. Maybe he should run for office?

 

[MetalMover]

Ok lets start with thanksgiving the holiday work list was totally screwed up EVERYONE was forced to work and then charged on the holiday work list. They kinda sorta fixed the list the friday before christmas. They did not post the updated holiday work list u ntill monday for Christmas on Thursday. There solution was to call the guys affected and tell them they had to work. You woukd think...
ok Saturday 12/27 the list for new years is not up yet. Kind of tough making plans when you don't know
you would think. ....
now the shift bid is supposed to take effect on January 18th I beleive. The company wants to extend the bid and the rumor is they are till like February or march nothing in writing yet...
you would think....
now about the bid when we bid vacations they did not leave enough weeks so a lot of junior people got Jan, Feb and march vacation.
You would think...
a little common courtesy in making plans for vacation would be nice if you knew your days off.
the reason actually rumor because there is no communication on the bid extension is that they don't know how to man for the banking complex in march. who know?
You would think....
that with an important schedule change you would want your people behind you? Possibly go a little out of your way to make some semblance of peace?
You woukd think.... no maybe we think too much!

We do have a manager that has done more to unify dfw then any union rep. Maybe he should run for office?

Maybe he didn't get memo that the company wants to make peace.

 

[dfw gen]

Oh and the promised a 4% raise someday over the rainbow.

 

[dfw gen]

Oh and they promised a 4% raise someday over the rainbow.

 

[bigjets]

So no DFW mech got Christmas off?

Any word on layoffs at DFW in DFW ?

 

[DallasConehead]

Any word on NY HOs? yea right....
 
How about getting the all powerful and mighty Garys to intervene with all the confusion, conjecture and make it run better then with managements heavy hand? Do it for the members to improve the work environment.  You know, delayed bids, jacked up HOs, OT bans and don't eat the food and such, rumors of lay offs, you know, the 800 man no check gas station cant go on forever.   Oh that's right, they don't talk to AC Maint management because they shat on Wroble and Seymours desk day 1. Well, maybe help out Mishak, oops!!  Cant do that, asked the members to recall him from the podium.
 
Throw the grenade in the room and walk off, they don't have to work there.
 
Well, just write another 10 page letter to the NMB and then tell the members how your working so hard for them,  don't worry, they'll eat up, they're a bunch of fools anyway.

 

[dfw gen]

nuff blame to go around. have never seen it this bad ever..... maybe someone somewhere will step in and say enough lets do something and fix the contract,morale the system.
 
naw you would think someone cares enough. its pretty clear local management and the twu doesn't.

 

[bigjets]

Any HO's for Xmas of New Years at DFW ? Is the relationship hostile between twu and management in DFW, career decision day, 90 day letters, CS suspension, that kind of stuff?

 

[Bob Owens]

I recall there was a period when JFK was very low with OT yet management wasn't giving anyone HO. Their reasoning was that in the past they had seen a lot of sick calls and found they were short handed on the Holiday even with a reduced schedule.  Well with the new concessions they had won in 2003 when people called in sick they no longer did one day-ers because if you go back to work and have a relapse you lose another half day of pay so a sick call went from a one day event to a one week event. (Company admitted during negotiations that mechanics have the highest rate of sick use at 5.1 days per year since the concession was put in place, IIRC prior to that it was less than 3). Well as it worked out instead of dealing with one day being short handed, and a light day at that with a reduced schedule, they ended up being short a whole week with a lot of heavy days on either side of the Holiday. After a few years of that they started giving a lot of people off on Christmas even if it meant they ended up shorthanded on Christmas day. Better one bad day than a whole week. 

 

[AP Tech]

So the bottom line is DFW Maintenance is not real happy with their new man in charge sent in from the old USAirways Maintenance.  One would think his superiors would see/feel the pain in perhaps make a change?  As for their sick policy, that was a no brainer....take a minimum of 5 days days!!!! 

 

[Overspeed]

True statement that SK time is up but one must consider other variables as well. Management used to earn their workers respect by granting PVs, CS with oneself, Flex VC, and covering the workers when life happened. We in turn showed the same respect when they asked us to "bend" the contractual rules occasionally as well to get through an unusual op situation. We understood the give and take proposition. The problem is now is there is no compromise regardless of who started it.

Time to put on the big boy pants and work it out.

 

[dfw gen]

You would think...

 

[paul1]

What s the rumor on layoffs coming to dfw?

 

[dfw gen]

He says we are over 200 not sure how they got to that number there's not enough management here to count that high if they used all the fingers and toes.....

 

[Slopoke]

He says we are over 200 not sure how they got to that number there's not enough management here to count that high if they used all the fingers and toes.....

 
 
Who is "He"?