Oh Where Oh Where Is Amfa Today?

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What is wrong with this Picture? Read both articles, amfa is nowhere to be found?


Reuters
Mesaba to subcontract some work, cut 65 jobs
Friday October 17, 7:17 pm ET

Full story

American Airlines Completes Maintenance Base Capacity Realignments
Wednesday October 22, 11:30 am ET

Airline Would Sign 25-Year Lease for Kansas City Wide-Body Hangar

Company Able to Keep All Three Maintenance Bases After It Obtains $100 Million In Incentives and Achieves On-Going Operating Efficiencies

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The downward trend continues under Amfa watch while the upward trend continues under the TWU watch?

I think anyone with common sense would see what Amfa is all about, dumping 40% of your dues in Amfa while your Brother and Sister continues on the unemployment line?
:eek:
The choice is clear in representation.
 
Hey CIO,

Would you be willing to work for $7.50 per hour?

AA says they would put a maintenance base in every state, and compete with overseas workers that eat fish heads and rice for lunch?

Are you and the TWU in?

How about $3.3 BILLION IN CASH NOW?

FULL STORY....

AMR Reports Break-Even 3Q Results

AMR Posts Third-Quarter Operating Earnings
Of $165 Million And Net Earnings Of $1 Million

Excluding Special Items, AMR Reports Operating Earnings
Of $141 Million And A Modest Net Loss Of $23 Million

Airline Ends Quarter With $3.3 Billion In Total Cash And Short-Term Investments

AMR's Four-Point Turnaround Plan On Track
In Drive For Sustained Profitability At Acceptable Levels

Continuing to build financial momentum, AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, Inc., today reported operating earnings of $165 million and net earnings of $1 million for the third quarter. In last year's third quarter, AMR reported an operating loss of $1.3 billion and a net loss of $924 million, or $5.93 per share.

Both this year's quarter and last year's third quarter included special items - both gains and losses - resulting mostly from the company's restructuring efforts. In addition, in keeping with the provisions of SFAS 109, AMR's third quarter 2003 results do not reflect a provision for federal and state income taxes.

Conversely, AMR's third quarter 2002 results reflected a tax benefit. To provide a better comparison between the two periods, after adjusting for these special items and taxes, the company recorded a loss of $23 million this quarter, or $0.15 per share, versus a loss of $741 million, or $4.76 per share, in the third quarter of last year.

"We are making good progress under the focus and discipline of our four-point Turnaround Plan," said Gerard Arpey, AMR's president and CEO. "Nevertheless, the third quarter is a peak season for the airline industry, and under normal circumstances, we should be doing much better at this time of year than simply breaking even. We have a lot of work to do to achieve sustained profitability at acceptable levels, but we are clearly on the right track.

"When you look at everything we have had to overcome and compare our results in the third quarter with the huge losses in the same period last year," Arpey said, "the progress is very gratifying. Our third quarter performance is unmistakable evidence that we are building critical momentum on the cost side of the business and that those improvements, coupled with other aspects of the Turnaround Plan, are beginning to produce significant financial results.

"Most especially, AMR has been aided over the past several months by the sacrifices and hard work of our employees, who have rallied behind the Pull Together, Win Together tenet of the Turnaround Plan to help us overcome our financial crisis and take good care of our customers under some very challenging circumstances," Arpey said.

Third quarter highlights included:
An 8.1 percent increase in American's mainline unit revenues, reflecting record load factors in July and August.
An 8.6 percent decrease in American's mainline unit costs (excluding special items), despite a 6.3 percent drop in capacity and higher fuel prices.

A strong Sept. 30 cash and short-term investment balance of $3.3 billion (including $540 million in restricted cash and short-term investments), more than double the low of $1.6 billion last April.
Improved access to the capital markets, underscored by a $300 million convertible debt transaction closed in September.


Cash contributions of $173 million to the company's pension plans, bringing the year's total pension contributions to more than $300 million.

One of the biggest challenges facing AMR, Arpey said, is an uncertain revenue environment. There was an encouraging year-over-year increase in quarterly yield, the first such increase since the first quarter of 2001. American's third quarter yield was 11.63 cents, up 2.5 percent from a yield of 11.35 cents in the same period a year ago. But overall, the revenue environment is disappointing, Arpey said, and is negating much of the progress being made in lowering AMR's costs. This, he said, makes all the more important the cost principles of AMR's Turnaround Plan, aimed at lowering the company's costs so it can compete effectively in an industry marked by ever-expanding low-cost competition.

Still, Arpey said, AMR remains confident as it continues to implement initiatives throughout this year and in 2004 that should have a positive effect on the company's financial performance. For example:
In 2004, American will benefit for the entire year from the revenueand cost improvements associated with the realignment of its mid-continent hubs at Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth and St. Louis.

American has just begun adding back coach seats on its Boeing757 and Airbus A300 fleets, both of which will be assigned topredominantly leisure markets. These steps, and the reconfiguration of its Boeing 767-300s and 737-800s, should increase American's passenger revenue in 2004.

The recent launch of American's codeshare service with British Airways
and the addition of SWISS International to the oneworld alliance will expand American's network and revenue opportunities in the fourth quarter and beyond.

American today announced an understanding with Kansas City andthe state of Missouri that retains portions of AA's Kansas City maintenance base and completes plans for the more efficient allocation of work among the airline's three maintenance bases, giving the company $100 million in incentives from the base communities and on-going operating efficiencies.

American's position is enhanced by the focused efforts of its employees as they pull together and win together, sharing in the value they help create through the 38 million employee stock options issued earlier this year.

Continued implementation of AMR's $2 billion in strategic initiatives. These include completing the simplification of AMR's fleet from 14 to 6 aircraft types when the last F-100 is retired in September, and rolling out more self-service alternatives for customers at airports and on-line.
A recent partnership with American Express to issue a co-branded American Express Business ExtrAA Corporate Card that offers rebates and rewards, at the corporate level, for air travel spending on American.

Continued emphasis on customer service was recognized at the 10th Annual World Travel Awards, where American was named North America's Leading Airline for the sixth straight year and also won for World's Leading Economy Class and World's Leading Airline Internet Site.

"These and other steps will give us added financial impetus in 2004 that we will use to build on the momentum we are gathering this year," Arpey said. "We have begun a recovery process that should be helped substantially in 2004 by many of the initiatives now underway."
 
LABORNEWS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTSAND AEROSPACE WORKERS



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Machinists Union Prevents US Airways
From Subcontracting Maintenance

Washington D.C., October 21, 2003 - The Honorable Robert Cindrich of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania today issued the injunction sought by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to prevent US Airways from subcontracting heavy maintenance of the airline’s Airbus aircraft. Judge Cindrich agreed with the IAM’s assertion that US Airways’ attempt to subcontract the maintenance work created a major dispute under the Railway Labor Act.

“A well negotiated contract and the professionalism, support and unity of our US Airways members made today’s decision possible,†said International President R. Thomas Buffenbarger. “International, District and Local Lodge officers worked as a team to protect our members and preserve their contract.â€

“The court recognized the harm US Airways’ actions would have inflicted on our membership,†said IAM General Vice President Robert Roach, Jr. “While these were the same tactics used by notorious airline destroyer Frank Lorenzo, the IAM was confident that we would prevail. We had a strong case backed by 54 years of history and only wanted the opportunity to present our case before the court. Our contract language is clear and unambiguous.â€

Today’s order prohibits US Airways from subcontracting Airbus heavy maintenance. Maintenance is currently being performed on two US Airways Airbus aircraft at Singapore Technologies Mobile Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in Mobile, AL. Maintenance of these aircraft by MAE must cease immediately, and the IAM will ask the court to award damages to members affected by US Airways’ major violation of the status quo provisions of the Railway Labor Act.

“US Airways’ ill-advised attempt to violate our collective bargaining agreement did nothing but aggravate an already tense worker-management relationship,†said Roach. “But with the support of the other AFL-CIO transportation unions, this day belongs to airline workers. The airline would be well served to stop alienating its employees and begin mending relations.â€

IAM District 141-M represents 5,000 Mechanic & Related employees at US Airways. IAM District 141 represents the airline’s 4,450 Fleet Service Employees. More information about the Machinists Union can be found on our web site at www.goiam.org.

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Do you see the Big picture Yet???????
 
Hey CIO,

What can you and the TWU do about the Maintenance by the Hour Agreement with General Electric on the cf6-80c2a5 Engines?

Your members are still laid-off and this work is going overseas?

You're about as worthless and ignorant as they come!

How's the wife Mary, doing today?
 
Let's see... NWA Mechanics, $35/hr, 10 holidays, full vacation and sick time.
3rd Quarter profits = $43 Million

AA Mechanics $30/hr, 5 holidays, 1 week less vacation and half sick time.
3rd Quarter results = about $1 Million.
And that's the strongest quarter of the year. Oh Boy!

Let's throw a friggin' party! The TWU saved the day @ AA. :down:
 
An interesting contrast: USairways attempts to have A319's overhauled at an outside repair station. IAM responds, not with a grevance, but with an army of lawyers who march into court and get an injunction against managment, ordering them to stop work immediatly on the two A319's already at Mobil Aerospace and return them to the USair facilities for OHV.

Northwest Airlines publicly announces it will close its Overhaul center in ATL. Delfemine's and amfa decline to comment. Northwest Airlines closes said OHV center. Del Femine and Amfa do NOTHING. 300 mechanics are forced to do a costly and painfull move to MSP, 500 mechanics are put out on the street! Del Femine and amfa do NOTHING!
Why wouldn't Del and amfa do something? Incompetent? Too Greedy (busy counting that 40% cut of the dues)? No one should really be surprised. This is what happens at "AMATURE HOUR"!! :down:
 
CIO

tell us about the 2 MD80 heavy C checks that are being outsourced because we dont have the time or facilities to perform the work.
 
Checking it Out said:
scorpion go get your facts first?
Fact 1: Heard a rumor that 6 heavy c's were going to be outsourced so we asked management about this. After some research they came back monday and said that 2 MD80 heavy C Checks were going to be outsourced. Their position was that we didnt have the time or facilities to perform the work.

Fact 2: The TWU knows about this and you also have knowledge of this thats why I put the question to you so dont be such a smart ass just tell us what the union is going to do to stop it. This isnt an AMFA vs TWU issue this is a membership problem so get your panties out of a wad and stop dodging my question.

Fact 3: I'm trying to get more facts!
 
This is not the first time the company has farmed out heavy checks and the Union agreed to it. Several years ago the company put forth the same argument that they did not have the resources to do several 727 heavy checks. I don't know the exact number of airplanes that were done by third-party maintenance but I do know the Union agreed to it.
 
Everybody needs to spread the word about this outsourceing at work and ignore the (twu LOSERS) on this board and get the rest of the cards collected and get this drive done The sooner this sellout union is gone the better come on TULSA just a few more and were there........
 
What irony!! Amfa worshipers worrying about outsourcing! They should be thrilled! First two planes, after amfa gets in, ALL OF THEM!!
 
AAmech said:
What irony!! Amfa worshipers worrying about outsourcing! They should be thrilled! First two planes, after amfa gets in, ALL OF THEM!!
How about we work for $7.50 per hour, and compete with those workers overseas that eat fish heads-n-rice for dinner.

We could do all of AMFA's outsourced maintenance, and have a maintenance base in every state...

....THINK OF THE JOBS WE WOULD CREATE?

How about another round of TWU "concessions-for-jobs" while the compAAny increases it's cash on hand by $1.7 Billion Dollars on the backs of the working man?


17.5% Paycut

Loss of 5 Paid Holidays

Loss of 5 Paid Vacation Days
Sick Time Paid 50% for 2 Days of Each Occurance

Loss of 7 Sick Days


Lifted Job Security Protection

Lifted Cap on Medical Payroll Deduction Increase

OSM Payrate for Shop Mechanics

Loss of License/Skill Pay for Mechanics RIF's to Shops

ALL WHILE AA INCREASES CASH ON HAND TO $3.3 BILLION!

TWU SUCKS!