Don’t come back here and waste time. After Airline Deregulation all the Major Legacy Airlines went through Bankruptcies and concessions having to fend off low cost entrants like SWA that undercut the market lowering prices for flying. To that end though (here we have to go again) AMFA lost ALL their Mechanics that they represented at NWA. They couldn’t even hold on to that representation when Delta merged with NWA. Total complete loss and utter devastation to all except those who actually felt the need to SCAB their own and cross the picket line having understandably no confidence in AMFA as an entity. In hindsight at the time they made the right move since AMFA extinguished their certification and just faded away.
As a matter of fact I’ve never even heard of AMFA ever trying to gain/regain representation at Delta. Long term lingering bad taste I guess.
SWA is a young Airline by comparison of the time. It only gained certification in 1971. American Airlines was founded in 1926. So yes during their 2003 concessions brought on by Deregulation TWU did lose work. Absolutely agreed. Anything else prior to that was voted on by the membership. Hopefully you’re someone who accepts the will of your coworkers.
Now why don’t you start comparing the amount of work between the two airlines today? There is no competition when it comes to Scope. And SWA never filed for Bankruptcy or asked their employees for concessions. So what’s the excuse?
*heavy sigh* its good to see you still don't know a single thing about the AMFA strike. Let me make it really clear for you, AMFA at NWA is why you have a job. AMFA at NWA is why I have a job. AMFA at NWA is why every mechanic working for a major US airline outside of the top 1,500 or so of their seniority lists have jobs. If they would have pulled a TWU and just rolled and signed the contract NWA was offering it would have effectively ended any kind of airline maintenance in this country outside of line maintenance at the hubs and maybe some larger cities. You really should post less and research more because its painfully clear you are so ignorant to this industry it isn't funny. Hehe Haha Its really funny those guys at NWA lost everything to make sure the airlines could force that abomination of a contract on everyone else via the bankruptcy judge, but im guessing you don't even know how any of that works either.
Oh and yes, Delta has over the years had a few AMFA card drives and if I remember right a vote right around bankruptcy time. Fact is, after NWAMFA no union has shown Delta's mechanics any reason to go union. Everything at Delta is either comparable or better than the union peps. As far as outsourcing or insourcing goes, Delta is the only US airline that is doing any kind of meaningful investing in the business to make sure they continue to do work on Delta and customer airplanes well into the future and on the next generation of airplanes.
Delta is the only US airline to have engine agreements for 3 out of the 6 next generation engines coming on to the market and is working on a fourth. (Pratt GTF, Trent 1000/7000, Trent XWB are already in, sounds like CFM LEAP at least 1B but i expect them to do 1As as well)
American outsources all of that.
United outsources all of that.
Not to mention all the other things Delta has been working on insourcing across Technical Operations/service group. Why would I want your union? so they can outsource all of it? thats what would probably happen. Hell they would probably scab again if they company asked them too.
Second part, yet again showing you have no idea what you are talking about, your 2003 deal isn't what caused you large jump in outsourcing. Matter of fact you were fairly flat for a long time after 2003. Your big outsourcing came around 2013-2014 and have been a rocket ship since then. I was going back as far as I did to help you out. Your union, not United. Not Southwest. Not UPS. Not non-unions of Delta and Fedex.....no YOUR UNION has been the trail blazers for outsourcing in this decade. Starting with the roll over in bankruptcy and the absolute god awful contract you voted yes on for your JCBA during the US airway merger.
And we can compare today, Southwest is about ~10 points more outsourced than you. Again, they are tracking down and have slowly but surely clawing back work. I fully expect once the full consequences of your last contract come to full realization, American will be quite close, if not outsourcing more, than Southwest. I also expect you will pass United as well making you the most outsourced carrier why AMFA and the IBT (lol) has been slowly bringing in work.
And I personally hope I am around to see the mental gymnastics when you try to justify it on here and what you and the worthless unions new statistic will be to attempt to make fun of AMFA.
