Bob you are totally wrong.
The other airlines had more AMT's because we had the best maintenance operation in the industry bar none. We had fewer AMTs working on more planes with a better on time record.
Well at least you admit that we had fewer mechanics.The guys in what are now Class III stations were sold out as their work was outsourced to vendors way before any of the other majors and banished even more of the line to night shift as we lost R&D and deicing.
And what did we get in return for our superior productivity? A-5 passes for the AA-ATD? We certainly didnt end up with a $20/hr advantage over our peers like UPS has (you have often cited how they have very few mechanics). So what did we get?
You claim that when we had the lowest ratio of mechanics and a wage that was at least close to our peers AA had a better on time record. OK but now AA has more AMTs per airplane than than their competitors but we are all making crap wages and AA has the worst performance. So is the performance related to the number of mechanics or the pay of the mechanics?
It is your flawed thinking as to why giving you more time at the negotiating table would have screwed us even more than we already are. Why?
Well that answers why Don didnt ask me to be on any of his committees.
The new TWU M&R CBA will protect more jobs then ANY of the other CBAs at ANY other airline. Keep whining Bob, you lost the vote of confidence that you and your gang of fools had any hope of delivering a better agreement than the one the TWU Int'l recommended we vote yes on back in May 2010.
Sure it will, as long as its never put to the test that is. The fact is that management was running around the line trying to sell the deal by telling the line that the language will allow the company to outsource enough so OH will not be the majority the next time around. Does that sound like they are saving jobs? 35% of maintenance spend is not the same at 35% of manhours. So the less they spend per man hour to outsource the more man hours they can outsource. The more they spend on the line the more they can outsource in OH, in fact there is no limit as to how much OH they can outsource is there? So if they can get the work done at half the cost they can in Tulsa then they can outsource at least 70% of all the man hours right? and thats if we dont count parts, which of course is conted, so the more they spend on parts the more manhours they can outsource, even if they ship those parts from a veundor to another vendor for installation.
You are making the same arguement that Republicans who are against the minimum wage make, that the best way to increase jobs is to decrease wages, Walmart is great for workers because they employ more people right? isnt that what you are saying? Or is Walmart bad because they wont allow their workers to join unions and pay dues? I dislike Walmart because they pay their workers crappy wages, so AA is the Walmart of the Airline Industry for A&P mechanics, but thats ok because we all pay dues right? Dues that can allow some to get free cars and six figure salaries as we lose our pensions, benefits, vacation, sick time, IOD etc, etc.
Its the AA ATDs deal, they own it, they punished us for not voting yes by refusing to ask for a release like pretty much every other Union under the RLA has done over the last 75 years after they turn down a TA.
By the way my peers, the people who put me in office got all the AA-ATDs vote YEs garbage and they still voted NO by 96%.
