IAM Fleet Service Topic 6/7-6/13

[Tim Nelson]

And the end result of Canale's efforts is employment. My understanding is that the new direction folks are fed up with wages/benefits/work rules and their motto is THE CONCESSION STAND IS CLOSED. This is why you are b***h slapping Canale to the curb. This is what a union memberships voting rights are about. My only point is that I think you guys/gals need to stand behind your vote and convictions. Remember, NO MORE CONCESSIONS. CLOSE THE PLACE DOWN.

Don't let the BK judge be your excuse. Whatever the judge imposes you still have your integrity for NO MORE CONCESSIONS. CLOSE THE PLACE DOWN. Simply walk away.

Ezchkin,
the masses at United and US AIRWAYS are voting against Randy because he has been proven to be inept. This vote is based on performance and the results are an indication of Randy's past achievements and/or lies, i.e., "The concession stand is closed, "Jets for Jobs", "PIT's protected with MDA", "a knife to the belly and a gun to the head", "1113 letters are 'iron clad'. "Your choice is between voting for this contract or waiting till 2009."

Nobody could have done worse. And nobody could have united the masses from both United and US AIRWAYS in such a way unless that individual was incompetent in his duties.

regards,
Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

 

[JoeDirt]

District Officer Election Update: HNL

Delaney 293
Canale 222

Good news is that the New Directions team has lambasted Canale in 13 stations and only lost in DTW.

Bad news is that Canale made a ruling that the Aloha HNL local members will be able to vote in this election. This is disturbing since that Airline doesn't even exist anymore and also those workers are not active employees. Where are they working? What airline?

Unfortunately, Canale can interpret the bylaws how he sees fit. These 2000 eligible voters will most likely vote for Canale since word is that they don't know what is going on but Randy is blowing smoke up their butts telling them he's trying to get their jobs back and that a possible investor is 'in the works' to resurrect Aloha.

CLT needs to produce because Randy's latest action is a good indicator that he will do anything to steal this election. Again, Aloha is not even an airline anymore but Canale determined that these are all voters.

One thing we have noticed is that Team 2008 is actually getting out a much better vote this week. Our initial reports up in BOS indicate that BOS is doing a decent turnout and is most likely in favor of Canale. Nonetheless, The New Direction team is blasting away full steam ahead. CLT can be the station that 'drives the stake in the heart' if it produces the 774 valid votes that Oman sez it is capable of producing [has produced that amount in 2 other votes this year]. And we are hoping that PIT has a decent turnout for the New Direction, along with ATL, and MSP on Thursday.

regards,
Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

The above is all the more reason we need a huge turnout in CLT. Tell everyone that their vote is needed to secure THE NEW DIRECTION team. We need the biggest turnout we have ever had on a vote. It is crunch time and CLT is in at the forefront. Remember Canale has never given a
SH!T about CLT and this is our chance to show him how big of a mistake that attitude is going to be.

 

[Tim Nelson]

The above is all the more reason we need a huge turnout in CLT. Tell everyone that their vote is needed to secure THE NEW DIRECTION team. We need the biggest turnout we have ever had on a vote. It is crunch time and CLT is in at the forefront. Remember Canale has never given a
SH!T about CLT and this is our chance to show him how big of a mistake that attitude is going to be.

It is most likely that Canale will throw out ORD and PHL and order a revote systemwide if he's anywhere in the ball park, provided our key stations in the next two weeks don't particiapte like we hope they will. He threw out over 40% of our nominations and we have every reason to believe our sources that he plans on throwing out PHL and ORD due to supposed
'voting technicalities' and to issue a revote sometime in 2009. Remember, ORD and PHL, together make up about 30% of this district.

If those 1600 New Direction votes from ORD and PHL are thrown out then Canale can get it down to around 500 votes differential. And with the 'second life' of the 2,000 member Aloha local, Canale may pick up hundreds of additional votes there with these dirty tactics. The New Direction didn't even campaign with the Aloha employees since they ceased to become employees and in fact there isn't even an Aloha airline anymore.
SEA, SFO 1781 are not sure bets for the New Direction, and neither is BOS. So things could tighten up a bit after this evening.

But if PIT and CLT take things seriously then Thursday should spell doom for Canale since only 1200 members will be left to vote after Thursday.

regards,
Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

 

[robbedagain]

Well the DISRESPECT that ol canarybird and croonies have shown the last few yrs and KICKING CLT out of the latest TA meetings just prior goes to show what an a$$ ol canarybird makes of himself. He thinks he is the biggest dude in the airline and all he is is someone who refuses to even recognize the employees and respect them. There is absolutely NO EXCUSES to let him stay.
He is the reason why the current ta is what it is; he's the main cause of why 30 cities got kicked out to the streets; He's the reason fleet service has taken huge paycuts, bene cuts etc etc. He has got to go. and He has to go now.

 

[orioleman]

CHILL....I will give you a good example of some of the problems it creates for zone cities

NEXT EX:

Pull up..........DRH*307/10 CLT........
Notice All the conx are in the rear........there were 55 BE and 45 BM....up front were 40 BL...
Why not swap the BM with BL and the load/wgt/cg is basically the same........
As it is now, CLT runners have to wait for all conx to be off loaded....where if they were in separate bins like they should be, they can just go when their bin is off loaded.......

NEXT EX:
The bottom line is that the training dept has the respnsibility to give you the tools to do the job.
As you can see from the examples .....Flt 161 gives you info you need to do your job in a timely
and yes safe manner. I hope this helps and if I'm wrong on any of this....please respond accordingly. I have no problem being corrected.............I only learn from it...........Kind of like I have learned about the present Canale regime.

Hey Mike you sure you don't work PBR in CLT .. HIT THE NAIL SQUARE ON THE HEAD.. GREAT OBSERVATION.

Now if we can only get PJ and his boys in RDU to learn how to load . CLT would be paradise I tell ya Paradise

 

[orioleman]

District Lodge Officer Election update: HNL


When some of the HNL folks were asked why they voted for Delaney, their reply was, "Everybody knows Canale is with management and Delaney offers us a strong labor man who actually listens."

regards,
Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

sidenote : HNL for the 1st time in there history VOTED AGAINST the DISTRICT.. what does that tell ya.

 

[orioleman]

District Officer Election Update: HNL

Delaney 293
Canale 222
Bad news is that Canale made a ruling that the Aloha HNL local members will be able to vote in this election. This is disturbing since that Airline doesn't even exist anymore and also those workers are not active employees. Where are they working? What airline?

Unfortunately, Canale can interpret the bylaws how he sees fit. These 2000 eligible voters will most likely vote for Canale since word is that they don't know what is going on but Randy is blowing smoke up their butts telling them he's trying to get their jobs back and that a possible investor is 'in the works' to resurrect Aloha.

CLT needs to produce because Randy's latest action is a good indicator that he will do anything to steal this election. Again, Aloha is not even an airline anymore but Canale determined that these are all voters.

CLT can be the station that 'drives the stake in the heart' if it produces the 774 valid votes that Oman sez it is capable of producing [has produced that amount in 2 other votes this year]. And we are hoping that PIT has a decent turnout for the New Direction, along with ATL, and MSP on Thursday.

regards,
Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

ATTENTION CLT

The ball is in our court. WE come out and show our SOLIDARITY ONE MORE TIME .. And the Great A** also formally known as Randy Canale is DONE. CLT WE HAVE THE POWER TO PUT THE STAKE IN THE TURD ONCE AND FOR ALL. IT'S time to stop Bit**ing about
how much our union sucks and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

CANALE will pull every string he can to ensure his 200,000.00 job with perks . trust me he will go down fighting . UNLESS WE IN CLT
put it so far out of reach there will be nothing he can do..

Boys and girls it's the bottom of the ninth tie score . who wants to hit the walkoff HOMERUN.. IT'S IN OUR POWER .

 

[Tim Nelson]

ATTENTION CLT

The ball is in our court. WE come out and show our SOLIDARITY ONE MORE TIME .. And the Great A** also formally known as Randy Canale is DONE. CLT WE HAVE THE POWER TO PUT THE STAKE IN THE TURD ONCE AND FOR ALL. IT'S time to stop Bit**ing about
how much our union sucks and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

CANALE will pull every string he can to ensure his 200,000.00 job with perks . trust me he will go down fighting . UNLESS WE IN CLT
put it so far out of reach there will be nothing he can do..

Boys and girls it's the bottom of the ninth tie score . who wants to hit the walkoff HOMERUN.. IT'S IN OUR POWER .

It's time for CLT to put an end to Canale. It's what CLT does. It's what you guys do Oman! Do it on Thursday one more time.
Drive that stake right through that company punk. That punk has sold out the working people for his own personal gain for too long. He also screwed over Mike Fairbanks because Mike stood up for the CLT workers. I was there in PIT when he refused to allow CLT's grievance committeeman in the PIT meeting last month. Canale has screwed over CLT left and right. IMO, CLT workers need to go to the local to vote against Canale, not only because Canale sux but also to support the very grievance committee that Canale has refused to recognize. It's the main way the CLT membership can show its appreciation of its fine grievance committee.

Hundreds of United Airline workers here in ORD will have their eyes on CLT waiting for the good news of how CLT delivered 'great pain' to Canale and his group of punks. We must press onward and if Canale does in fact choose to throw out PHL and ORD then CLT must have our back.

regards,
Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

 

[ezchkin]

sidenote : HNL for the 1st time in there history VOTED AGAINST the DISTRICT.. what does that tell ya.

I don't think HNL has completed the voting yet, have they? Isn't there one more local to vote? The big one?

 

[ezchkin]

Here are a few of the many reasons why we kicked them to the curb

Bad Representation
Crummy Communication
Lousy Leadership
Awful Acountabilty
and unseen Visibility of the incumbents

This list could go on and on

Thanks, point well taken.

 

[orioleman]

ez,
You maybe right. I'm not sure which local is the stronger of the two.
but answer if you can. How can Unemployed Non airline Aloha people vote in a Airline district election.

 

[Hey.. Chill Out]

CHILL....I will give you a good example of some of the problems it creates for zone cities

Pull up.......... DRH*254/10 PHL........in decs
Notice the load is BI77 in AC and BI11 in FC....I think we all know that it's suppose to be BO ?
Move down and notice that there is no bin location to distinguish what desinations are where?
so i would have to wait for the whole A/C to be offloaded if i was looking for specific bags!

NEXT EX:

Pull up..........DRH*307/10 CLT........
Notice All the conx are in the rear........there were 55 BE and 45 BM....up front were 40 BL...
Why not swap the BM with BL and the load/wgt/cg is basically the same........
As it is now, CLT runners have to wait for all conx to be off loaded....where if they were in separate bins like they should be, they can just go when their bin is off loaded.......

NEXT EX:

Pull up..........DRH*161/10 PHL........
Notice and compare. The offload matches the CONX load on the bottom where some CONX are in
the FWD bin but are identified by the FC.

The bottom line is that the training dept has the respnsibility to give you the tools to do the job.
As you can see from the examples .....Flt 161 gives you info you need to do your job in a timely
and yes safe manner. I hope this helps and if I'm wrong on any of this....please respond accordingly. I have no problem being corrected.............I only learn from it...........Kind of like I have learned about the present Canale regime.

I really appreciate your insight Mike, Joe is right, you hit it right on the head.

Is this an effort of the team-lead to do what is logical and switch the bags around, like in example 2, or is the company/weight and balance advocating something different?

I think this is where the initiave should start, when this stuff gets fixed, when common sense is used, then we improve our operations.

good analysis!

 

[JoeDirt]

Chill
I have a question. I know what our load plans call for but what is the best way to load a PHX flight? Locals in one end and Express and on line transfers in the other. If you work in LAS, LAX, DEN or SFO or any other station your input would be welcome.

 

[ezchkin]

Ezchkin,
the masses at United and US AIRWAYS are voting against Randy because he has been proven to be inept. This vote is based on performance and the results are an indication of Randy's past achievements and/or lies, i.e., "The concession stand is closed, "Jets for Jobs", "PIT's protected with MDA", "a knife to the belly and a gun to the head", "1113 letters are 'iron clad'. "Your choice is between voting for this contract or waiting till 2009."

Nobody could have done worse. And nobody could have united the masses from both United and US AIRWAYS in such a way unless that individual was incompetent in his duties.

regards,
Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago

Tim,
Your point is well taken. However, with all due respect, I need to disagree with your wording "masses". Unfortunately for both sides, the masses aren't getting out and voting. I'm thinking, but not sure, that PHL had the best turnout. Do you know what the total IAM141 membership is in PHL? Chicago had what? about 34% voter turnout? What is the thinking of the remaining 66%? I'm just using Chicago for an example because I think they got more voters out than other locals (like HOU?) At any rate, I'm thinking the low voter turnout is due to complacency. I think the majority of members are ok with the current regime. I'm thinking with the new directioners taking the majority of the first week that it has awaken the rest of the membership. Perhaps the remaining locals will be shaken up and realize their vote is needed (no matter which team you're going for). I think you'll see a greater voter turn-out the rest of the month. Just my opinion!

 

[ezchkin]

ez,
You maybe right. I'm not sure which local is the stronger of the two.
but answer if you can. How can Unemployed Non airline Aloha people vote in a Airline district election.

To answer your question, I suppose for the same reason our new direction 08 local has a sec/treasurer that has been unemployed by an IAM employer for the past two years. 😱