Previous AMFA organizers have started another card signing drive under the name of AMP. (AMP currently represents no one.) We all know the idea of being in a craft union that is isolated from the AFL-CIO and the rest of labor has failed miserably for mechanics. If AMFA/AMP won a representation election of AA mechanics, some AA upper management, who already believe we should shed heavy maintenance, will do so, just as other airlines have as AMFA took over representation rights. Those bases closed because their work was outsourced.
3 at Northwest
2 at Alaska
1 at ATAMembers should be concerned about a startup association that would threaten their future. Solidarity and the strength of our membership has maintained our jobs at this base for 65 years. This is the time to stand together as a union.
I understand your concern because I too am concerned and this is why I ran for office. The more we are involved, the stronger and united we will be.
Fraternally,
Sam Cirri, President
I had hopes of Tulsa pointing its finger (collectively) where it belongs-at the International and inflicting retribution. I honestly didn't want to see in the mud union brother against union brother here in Tulsa like what had happened in the past.
When the battlefront is here in Tulsa the International smiles as its compliant stoogies do battle for them. I don't understand how anyone can defend the TWU International UNLESS they have been sucking from its tit for several years and gained on a personal level at the expense of other union members. It is difficult for me to understand how International officers can enjoy increases in pay and benefits while their members sacrifice again and again.
I am not a member of the AMP steering committee, however, an assault on our ability as Americans to freely select representation of our choosing always raises my ire.
AMP and AMFA are two different animals. AMP will be a completely independent union made up of maintenance and material professionals from American Airlines. For us to see AMP as AMFA is to see an apple as a banana. AMP is about us taking care ourselves without the liability of a parasitic International with an agenda that conflicts with our best interests. We don't need a middle man. Especially one that increases its wages and benefits while we are sacrificing in an uneven arrangement brokered by those who are supposed to be looking after our best interests.
Let there be no confusion AMFA is not AMP and AMP is not AMFA. Any coupling of the two is an effort to confuse the facts.
The Pilots union and the Flight Attendants union are independent unions and have prospered. There is no debate who their officers represent. The Flight Attendants where once TWU. How many times have you heard the F/A' s clamor to rejoin the TWU?
I invite any F/A around to start a TWU card drive. I don't believe the Pilots would stand in line to join the TWU either.
The idea that we can't operate successfully as an independent union of maintenance (or material) professionals is just plain folly. Sam, sell it to someone else.
Another argument that's out there is the argument that AA would shed its maintenance if AMP were to succeed in taking over representation duties from the TWU. To be honest if the company can get quality maintenance cheaper and quicker somewhere else on a fleet this size they will-it doesn't matter who represents us. We're not here because the company likes us-we are a necessary evil that they would just as soon not have to deal with. It doesn't matter what label our representation sports.
Sam, why tap dance along with the International? Your smarter than that. Stand back and allow the membership to exercise their rights as Americans to choose the representation that will better serve their best interests.
I filled out an AMP card and am ready to defend myself in TWU Kangaroo Kourt when the TWU gets desperate enough to begin punishing us for exercising our rights as American citizens and attempts to scare its membership into mindless compliance. It should be a lot of laughs.
The last time we voted in a representational election was 1948.
3 at Northwest
2 at Alaska
1 at ATAMembers should be concerned about a startup association that would threaten their future. Solidarity and the strength of our membership has maintained our jobs at this base for 65 years. This is the time to stand together as a union.
I understand your concern because I too am concerned and this is why I ran for office. The more we are involved, the stronger and united we will be.
Fraternally,
Sam Cirri, President
I had hopes of Tulsa pointing its finger (collectively) where it belongs-at the International and inflicting retribution. I honestly didn't want to see in the mud union brother against union brother here in Tulsa like what had happened in the past.
When the battlefront is here in Tulsa the International smiles as its compliant stoogies do battle for them. I don't understand how anyone can defend the TWU International UNLESS they have been sucking from its tit for several years and gained on a personal level at the expense of other union members. It is difficult for me to understand how International officers can enjoy increases in pay and benefits while their members sacrifice again and again.
I am not a member of the AMP steering committee, however, an assault on our ability as Americans to freely select representation of our choosing always raises my ire.
AMP and AMFA are two different animals. AMP will be a completely independent union made up of maintenance and material professionals from American Airlines. For us to see AMP as AMFA is to see an apple as a banana. AMP is about us taking care ourselves without the liability of a parasitic International with an agenda that conflicts with our best interests. We don't need a middle man. Especially one that increases its wages and benefits while we are sacrificing in an uneven arrangement brokered by those who are supposed to be looking after our best interests.
Let there be no confusion AMFA is not AMP and AMP is not AMFA. Any coupling of the two is an effort to confuse the facts.
The Pilots union and the Flight Attendants union are independent unions and have prospered. There is no debate who their officers represent. The Flight Attendants where once TWU. How many times have you heard the F/A' s clamor to rejoin the TWU?
I invite any F/A around to start a TWU card drive. I don't believe the Pilots would stand in line to join the TWU either.
The idea that we can't operate successfully as an independent union of maintenance (or material) professionals is just plain folly. Sam, sell it to someone else.
Another argument that's out there is the argument that AA would shed its maintenance if AMP were to succeed in taking over representation duties from the TWU. To be honest if the company can get quality maintenance cheaper and quicker somewhere else on a fleet this size they will-it doesn't matter who represents us. We're not here because the company likes us-we are a necessary evil that they would just as soon not have to deal with. It doesn't matter what label our representation sports.
Sam, why tap dance along with the International? Your smarter than that. Stand back and allow the membership to exercise their rights as Americans to choose the representation that will better serve their best interests.
I filled out an AMP card and am ready to defend myself in TWU Kangaroo Kourt when the TWU gets desperate enough to begin punishing us for exercising our rights as American citizens and attempts to scare its membership into mindless compliance. It should be a lot of laughs.
The last time we voted in a representational election was 1948.
