Real Unionism

[Ken MacTiernan]

Local 33 webmaster note:

I wish to thank the United Auto Workers union for their support and generous gift. If you wish to contact them and personally thank them, use the address and phone listed below:

UAW International
Solidarity House
8000 East Jefferson Ave.
Detroit, Michigan 48214

313-926-5000



Thank you!
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The UAW gave a check for $880,000.00 to AMFA because the UAW understands what real unionism is all about. The UAW sees the NWA/AMFA issue for what it is really about... union busting.

Thank you UAW.

Now, I'm interested to see if cio and the other twu supporting alias using cowards spin this show of support as something wrong.

 

[James T. Kirk]

No, Kevin, I don't have a problem with the UAW trying to help NWA mechanics meet their mortgages or pay their bills. I do find it ironic that after decades of heaping every form of abuse on the "industrial unions" for not properly representing skilled labor, for spending dues money for political purposes, and for being built on the outdated notion of strength in numbers, the only union which has supplied anything significant in material support is the ultimate in industrial unions- the UAW. They have supplied the only strike fund available to AMFA members- a fund Amfa should have been putting together in anticipation of a strike that NWA prepared for over eighteen months.
But, where does that leave the mechanics? All the heavy maintenance is now outsourced, along with all the plant maintenance and cabin cleaning. If the past is any guide the pension and retiree medical will be terminated when the Company files for bankruptcy. AMFA is so weak and has made so many mistakes that none of this could be reversed if the UAW gave it 880 million dollars. But, despite everything AMFA has said over the years there is strength in numbers. If I were a NWA mechanic I'd be looking for new leadership and a new direction. I would demand that my union affiliate with the UAW.

 

[Bob Owens]

If I were a NWA mechanic I'd be looking for new leadership and a new direction.

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And if you were an AMFA member you could. But since you are a TWU member you have to accept whatever Jim Little decides and you cant vote him out.

 

[eolesen]

Now that NWA has started to hire replacements, and they've filed for bankruptcy, effectively ending the pension plans, perhaps it would have been more appropriate to offer to place AMFA members into UAW jobs....

 

[Ken MacTiernan]

So, NWA files for BK. They say they will hire the SCABS. How many will pass a back ground check? How many will even accept full employment?

Let's see how far NWA sticks the pointed end of a BK filing into the SCAB unions left at NWA. Everyone knows that the NWA AMFA AMTs did the right thing.

To all the unions left at NWA you deserve EVERY INCH of BK that NWA is granted. You all had a chance to fight standing up but know will grovel on your knees for the rest of your lives.

As for the iam at NWA. I hope you are the first group to chock on court ordered concessions.

GO AMFA!

 

[Bob Owens]

Now that NWA has started to hire replacements, and they've filed for bankruptcy, effectively ending the pension plans, perhaps it would have been more appropriate to offer to place AMFA members into UAW jobs....

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Judging from the amount of people quitting at AA I doubt they will have much trouble finding new jobs if needed.