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On 8/30/2002 2:53:04 AM
Chip that is an interesting proposition. When the press found out, after the fact ofcourse, they would say what an awful thing they did just to get their merger thru and then congress would pass some law to stop that sort of thing from happening again but we would have all been bored from behind Sans reach around.
The way I read the IAM term sheets is that you must give 185 and 265 respectively but how you get there is up to you. If you select from the menu of items mgt wants to cut and slap enough of them together to get to the $value you won't take any salary cuts. Or you could mix and match smaller salary cut with limited other givebacks to reach the threshold.
The CEO search has reached a crossroads again and noone will be announced for at least another week. We are going to BK cuz thats what these incompetents want.
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Man, people just know what they are reading these days...before you get to the "menu" part discussing the trading of rules for wage there is one little problem:
Scope/Job
Security
Delete Article II, Paragraphs D, E, F and G of the Mechanics'
Agreement and modify all cross-references to these provisions.
Delete Article II Paragraph E and F of the Maintenance Instructors’
and Article II, Paragraph E of the Fleet Technical Instructors'
Agreements and modify all cross-references to these provisions.
Modify Letter 94-5 of the Mechanics' Agreement
• Modify Letter 00-141 of the Maintenance Instructors Agreement.
• Modify Article W.G. of the Fleet Technical Instructors' Agreement
to eliminate the requirement for at least one Specialist where FTIs,
EPIs or PSCs are employed.
These areas are NOT negotiable and include:
No protection for maintaining the mtc bases at SFO OAK IND
No farm out protection of anykind, including allowing work at foreign stations
No layoff clause for those that participated in the ESOP (which runs till 2005) etc etc etc
There is no choice because with this there is no job. To sign this is suicide. Hell, we could talk wage and benefits, but this is the whole enchilada my man. Maintenance could and would be wiped out, along with all the engineering and all that management along with it. And everyone see's it as the union stonewalling.