Here's another point, is it smart to put on the sign that your going to mistreat the customers while standing right infront of corporate?
Oh and also next time, get a permit to stand on the street.. just and FYI.
First of all , neither i nor any other employee of us airways has said we will in anyway mistreat the customers or their luggage . (such actions would be unethical)
What i was trying to say is that i and most of my fellow workers will no longer go ABOVE AND BEYOND (except when safety is an issue ), a term most of you will soon be familar with ... i'm just going to do my job ... Here in the PHX hub this company runs it's operation on the fact that a good many of us go above and beyond everyday ... without this extra effort things are just going to deteoriate , thereby affecting the general public .
Also i was at one time curious about the whole permit thing , but i don't think we need one as that the tempe police checked on us throughout the day and said nothing .
To the other poster who asked how is our company holding us hostage ?this is how
We were once two companies , us airways , and america west airlines ... Then one day america west decided to buyout us airways ( hey i'll tell the story how ever the hell i want to ! ).
After the buyout went throu it was time to start combining the different work groups from amoung the two airlines . us airways ramp agents were protected by the IAM union , while the old awa rampers had the TWU union... things did not go well and there were disputes about which union would represent all the ramp workers... Each union told lies about the other until most memebers of both unions thought the other communist bastards controlled by the mafia ...It was suggested that a vote should be had to decided which union should live and which one should go away .... Many rallied and promoted for their side ... there was even bloodshead .... The only problem with this vote was that if 50% of the workers didn't vote both unions would disolve , so several months into the campaign for the vote , the TWU decided to forfit .... Iam was the victor and all ramp workers would hence forth be inducted into the IAM UNION .
So about half way into last years we the former TWU became IAM ...Started paying our union dues to IAM etc ... Now the good thing about the iam , is that their workers made much more money an hour compared to the old TWU workers ... We continued to get paid under the old poor TWU payscale for the remaineder of last year under the assumption that in this , the new year , we would recieve the pay rates of regular IAM workers... but it is now march and we are still being payed as if we were TWU workers, in other words , much less than our fellow workers on the east coast who do the exact same job that we do ...
It appears that there was some legal provsion in a transtion contract between the old union and the company that left loose ends resulting in the company not having to bump up our pay (in other words a loophole )... All of us on the west have protested this unfair act of the company ..we have protested loudly , and our response from managment has been simply that if they pay us what the other workers are making they won't have a strong hand to conduct new collective barganing between the union and the company when the next round comes up ... Hence we are being held hostage as leverage by our own company that said they wanted to look out for us in this merger , but instead of just paying us what everyone else is getting , OUR OWN COMPANY is holding us down in order to USE us to bargain with .... this behavior is unethical , immoral and DISGUSTING ....
US AIRWAYS U suck !
