I still want to slap M. Flores for including West F/A's in out profit sharing. Nothing against them at all. It's just that this was part of our concessionary contract. The profit sharing percentage should have been negoitiated for them, not just have them jump into our pool. All he did was dilute the money that was due East F/A's. What a weak d##k. That is pathetic. Leave it to him to do something like that, without bringing it up to the East population first, to get our opinion on the matter.
I could not agree more. All Mike will say about that is that he had no vote on the issue...
My answer to his lame response is that he brought the issue to the MEC with the conditions brought forward by the AWA MEC. What this idiot thinks he can "snow over" is that no matter what the hell the AWA MEC brought forward to the East MEC, THERE WAS NO MONIES COMING OUT OF THEIR POCKETS TO NEGOTIATE! The argument that the AWA MEC would not allow the furloughess of the East to have their longevity for pay purposes HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, ZERO, NADDA penny issue to do with the AWA f/as and they have NO say on what the company pays in longevity. That was a company issue and the furloughees and EAst compensation should have not been permitted to be in the mix. Concessions by f/a group were already given 3 times over. It is blatantly obvious that Mike F. lacked skills taking a postion of MEC Pres having 4 months experience at that time.
The entire profit sharing issue for two separately operated airlines with separate contracts needed to be worked out between AWA groups and THEIR senior management!
IBeing part of the MEC all the way up to Dec., 2005, and there was not even a whisper of such a proposal for profit sharing with the West. Evidently, this was a "last second" issue thrown over to the East MEC not giving them a chance to even think about this issue. It was voted on Jan. 16 2006.
So, figure that out...typical Mike F. dealings lobbying for AWA f/a MEC votes, and using the East f/as only compensation language to win them over.
I suspect I will get another nasty-gram from Mike on this post
🙄 but I think this was one of the dumbest, lame issues he brought over to the East MEC, and I think it should cost him the MEC position at the very least for his lack of thought, foresight in protecting the East f/as only compensation they could potentially receive through 2012!
The IAM is waiting until there is a "merged" contract agreement and in the meantime can make every attempt to increase the % profit sharing pool to add more merged employees.