It's easy to say whatever you want during a campaign to organize, You have no accountability.
Well isnt that a twist, the TWU complaining about a lack of accountability! Tell me how Jim Little is accountable to the members of the ATD who can not remove him.
It's a proven fact, amfa is basically useless in representing the membership.
If thats the case show us your "facts".
From what I see, if amfa was to get in, we can be assured, we will be following the track record at NWA and United in leading the Industry in Farmouts and Job reductions! You can take that to the Bank!
Well NWA and UAL had a lot of catching up to do with AA. Part of the reason why they lost more guys than we did recently was because they got concessions that we gave the company twenty years ago. The positions that we lost twenty years ago they are losing now. You dont like to talk about the past but tell us what happpened to the scores of mechanics positions at all the smaller line stations after the TWU took R&D away from maint? Tell us what happened to the mechanics positions in Buffalo NY, and Cleveland? What happened to the container shop in JFK? If the only way this union can keep jobs in house is to work for less than everyone else then we dont need a union. The reason why people join unions is to protect their pay and benifits. This union claims that they saved jobs when in fact they allowed the company to eliminate as many jobs as they wanted to, they even helped them to eliminate more jobs by taking away a week of vacation from every worker. But the one thing this union did save was the $3 million they get from the company.
2000 members at UAL? What about the 6000 members from AA. If the TWU and AA claim that we have 186000 in our class and craft but only 12000 are working that means we lost 6000!
Mojo,
What do you want me to support?
You want me to support the TWUs efforts at lowering mechanics pay and benifits?
You want me to support the TWUs selling out of the membership to preserve their ability to double dip?
You want me to support the TWUs role in destroying everything the labor movement has fought for for the last 75 years?
Like I said if the TWU acted like a union then I would support it. By I will not support their efforts at making themselves rich while selling us out.
We all could see what was going on all the way back to when Bush put in the Air Transportation Stabilization Act, and the events at USAIR. The fact is these unions in the AFL-CIO did nothing to protect their members. Instead of joining together and informing the government that they would not allow the industry to transfer the burdens of Sept 11 and the poor economy on to the backs of the airline worker they helped the government and the industry do just that. So not only did these unions sit back and allow Bush to stop both the NWA and UAL mechanics from striking by citing that the airlines were a critical industry to the US economy but they said nothing, nodding in muted agreement when the government later claimed that they would allow all the airlines to shutdown for financial reasons.
I suggested that we all get together and inform the government that after the first labor contract is abrogated in Chapter 11 we would all walk off the job. Jim Little demanded that I retract the statement. I refused. What would have been wrong with such an action? We see this all the time in other free countries. But our beaurocratic labor movement, with its well paid unaccountable dictators will never lead such an action. They are in bed with the same people that they are supposed to be representing us against. If you are a true unionist how could you not see this?
