From the AP Newswire, today, Saturday,
There is speculation that US Airways Group Inc. could bid for Continental or United, although it might need a partner who can bring cash to the table.
Fleet service needs to hold its position and stay away from settling for a quickie transition contract, more's on the table, and jobs will be lost in a merger if the right contract isn't signed.
I agree with Rattails, if Canale just 'bull rushes' the negotiations and creates a 'sweetheart' deal with Parker by giving Parker what he needs to move forward by handing him a transition without a vote and sliding the west into the east contract, then it will most likely be a DFR considering that Boss Canale sits on the UA board and is privileged to insider information. One thing we all know is that Boss Canale is prejudice towards United.
At any rate, it appears another goofy contract is coming since US AIRWAYS wants to get this deal done in the worst way. Don't let Parker hoodwink fleet, stick together and hold out for a fair contract. Bottom line, your contract is in sore need of better merger protections, job guarantees, etc. Every merger loses thousands of jobs so with the high seniority of United and US EAST, I would be very careful as a west sider to support any transition [voted or otherwise] that doesn't offer better job protections.
regards,
Tim Nelson
IAM Local Chairman, 1487, Chicago
Saturday, February 9, 2008
6:39PM - Thank you for all your support
Thank you for all the continued support for Randy Canale and his Team 2008. Thank you for each station at UA and US that voted to nominate Team 08. The No-Direction Slate continues to lose support after each station is made aware of the work ethic of these people. Momentum is gaining for Randy Canale throughout the system. Look for Team 08 to continue winning the nominations at the remaining stations.
The comments we have received from all of you have been very supportive. We developed this grassroots site @ Delaneyrevealed and we have received numerous requests from members to make this site more informative and not stoop as low as the opposition slate's slander and lies. The new posts will now be in regards to being more informative as to Randy's past accomplishments, the team that he has running with him, and how the membership will reap the benefit in protecting your futures with the representation from Team 2008.
The common theme from the other sites is that they choose to use member apathy and ignorance to gain votes against Team 2008. This site will be dedicated to giving proof as to why Team 2008 is better team to negotiate your contracts, protect your jobs, and handle your grievances versus mis-management.
Rich Delaney has been the Chicago AGC for the past three years and in those three years he has let the company change long standing work rules, local agreements which only benefit management and intentionally not heard member grievances just so he would be able to point the finger at Randy and blame Randy for his own shortcomings. Sacrificing the membership in his own home town is no way to gain support. Keeping his membership uneducated and uninformed to help his political agenda. His record speaks for its self. He is a incompetent leader who will spread his lack of work ethic throughout the system if he is elected. If Delaney was a leader looking out for the membership then his home station UA O'Hare should be a utopia, and it's far from it. Rich Delaney has allowed the company to run amuck, and allow management to do whatever they want to the members with no repercussion. Members at Chicago UA are extremely upset with the job Rich has performed over his past 3 years. The worst example is that of a Ramp serviceman in Chicago who was injured on the job, the company violated his contractual rights, but Delaney refused to hear his 3rd step grievance because the member voiced his concern over Rich's lack of representation. UA and US management would want nothing more than to have Delaney and his No-Direction team win so they could have an inexperienced team negotiating the merger and new contracts. Delaney admitted and agreed he represented the part-time full-time / cross utilization committee, but now states he didn't understand what he was agreeing to. Is this who you want negotiating and wasting your dues dollars?
Rich Delaney's No-Direction slate in made up of a group of anti-IAM advocates who promoted other unions and management supporting no-names with no contractual negotiating or grievance resolving experience.
Randy Canale has on the other hand brought the 2000 contract under traditional negotiations, he has worked his way through mergers and bankruptcies to protect job security, workers benefits and wages. In fact two bankruptcies at US Airways then a merger. Two bankruptcies for United, then he willingly protected the retirees when no other union stepped up. He achieved all this under bankruptcy laws forced upon us by corporate blackmail, which is, negotiate or they abrogate (impose whatever work rules) the contract. Randy's performance as the President and Directing Chair has been outstanding and we should be confident that he stepped forward to run another term to represent us in the upcoming merger.
UAL in bankruptcy looked to eliminate the defined benefit pension. Randy led negotiators through bankruptcy to be the only union at UAL with a defined benefit pension. 401k defined contributions are heading downwards as the market stumbles. While your IAM pension remains stable.
When selecting your representatives Randy selected representatives from every classification to represent each work group on the the field at US and UA. Every member at each work group and station needs to have their voice heard. Randy is a man with integrity running for re-election because he is a true unionist. Randy always has been and always will be a man we can trust and believe in, there are very few people that would put their lives on hold and place the members first. He sincerely does not deserve the lies and mis-information being distributed by the No-Direction Slate.
The bottomline is that in 2002 Randy negotiated the best contract in the industry for UA and even through forced concessions at UA and US those contracts are still superior to contracts of other union represented work groups who did not go through bankruptcy.
We here at Delaneyrevealed understand that most members are being mislead by union reps with personal political agendas. But the facts are the facts. Randy is by far the better man for the job.
Again we at Delaneyrevealed are dedicated to the truth and facts. We will continue to let you post whatever comments you like but those comments that are inappropriate or not related to union representation may be deleted.
Again stay strong and educated. The worst thing the company can face is a educated member with a strong union leadership. Randy Canale is the man who will lead us into the future.
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