new IAM update

[diogenes]

Wings,

Guess you keep forgetting the fact that the CBA was abrogated by a Judge in Chapter 11 then you and your coworkers voted on a final offer, not a negotiated CBA and had the information in front of you.

But hey, once again it is easier for you to blame the IAM instead of the Company and the Courts.

Then why didn't the company take recall rights from everybody else on the property?

Sorry, the IAM bears responsibility for this - the PHL NC wanted to get even with old PI stations and the district and international let them.

 

[Tim Nelson]

Then why didn't the company take recall rights from everybody else on the property?

Sorry, the IAM bears responsibility for this - the PHL NC wanted to get even with old PI stations and the district and international let them.

actually you are pretty close to the truth based on my conversations with some folks a few years back. PHL was tired of what they called 'out of towners' bumping them in PHL so the IAM PHL heavy negotiators decided to 'add' the 60 day language to effectively 'stick it to the senior folks' and discourage them from accepting a recall at $9 bucks an hour.

Regardless of opinion, the IAM has been the pioneer in their innovative thinking of how to screw workers. The IAM was first to establish the new "B" scale that pays workers based on hub or non hub status. Now, non-union companies may be pressured to take the IAM's lead just like they were pressured to take the TWU's lead in the 80s with the original "B" scale idea. Remember, these injust B scales weren't the creative idea of managements but unions.

The IAM also exclusively pioneered the 60 day rule. This is so exclusive to the IAM that they should have it patented.
No other union on the property had the original and innovative thought to actually screw their members so bad. I imagine the company negotiators themselves were even set back by that one. You've heard of 'leave it to the beaver'? The IAM is the beaver! You've heard of "denis the menace?" The IAM is the menace.

regards,

 

[robbedagain]

it is a phlly thin that is what i have heard over and over from several people that i know in phlly and one from the station mgr in my city. sadly enough the iam allowed the 60 day rule which they KNEW would never allow anyone to transfer to another city without startin over at the chicken wages. now that us aint in ch11, i think its hight time the union either takes back all the contracted cities and get better contract or get voted out.

 

[smallstFSA]

As a furloughed fleet svc agent I feel _crewed by both company and IAM, at this point blaming one over the other serves no purpose to me. This past week I had conversations with both local Vendor and Company management and have the following obvious impressions:

1. The vendor product if anything is getting worse.
2. The company cannot keep new hires at hubs.
3. The end result is huge revolving doors creating frustated local management.

Can anyone with common sense prevail?

 

[robbedagain]

As a furloughed fleet svc agent I feel _crewed by both company and IAM, at this point blaming one over the other serves no purpose to me. This past week I had conversations with both local Vendor and Company management and have the following obvious impressions:

1. The vendor product if anything is getting worse.
2. The company cannot keep new hires at hubs.
3. The end result is huge revolving doors creating frustated local management.

Can anyone with common sense prevail?

yeah that is how it will be until the IAMand the company gget all the outsourced cities back. At piedmont in our city, we're lucky just to have 4 people to work one airbuse, one dash 8, sometimes the 300, and the saab 340 at the same time. and the pay well that is about as worse as it can be. i believe that piedmont could afford at least 14 or 15 bucks an hr across the board but until things get better, if they do, well dont know what else to say except BACK INJURIES