Tune In To Twu

[Buck]

Those in TUL may want to watch the KOTV channel 6 local news at 6pm and 10pm.
The TWU will explain everything.

 

[The Dissident]

I hope someone tapes this so we can refute their lies and deciet. We should also ask for equal time to refute their statements.

 

[Checking it Out]

Oh Where! Oh Where is Amfa today???

Channel 6 contacted Local Amfa reps and they were unavailable at the time. The TWU members were commenting about the impact on the local economy and the destruction they have inflicted at NW!!

One of the Amfa members talked about the disapointment they have been at representing the NW employees.

Alliance, Kansas City,Tulsa along with the other stations and cities will have a major impact in the local economy if Amfa was successful at winning an election, which is highly unlikely.

 

[Superside]

OOOOH YYYEAH!
I can't wait! The news said "when we get enough cards" we"ll file for an election.
I guess The TWU didn't tell channel 6 that We already have enough cards to file.
Keep Spinning Boys...Your days are numbered.
YAAAHOOOOO!

 

[Buck]

Oh Where! Oh Where is Amfa today???

Channel 6 contacted Local Amfa reps and they were unavailable at the time. The TWU members were commenting about the impact on the local economy and the destruction they have inflicted at NW!!

One of the Amfa members talked about the disapointment they have been at representing the NW employees.

Alliance, Kansas City,Tulsa along with the other stations and cities will have a major impact in the local economy if Amfa was successful at winning an election, which is highly unlikely.

The TWU members were commenting about the impact on the local economy and the destruction they have inflicted at NW!!

Thanks CIO for admitting that the concessions have devastated the buying power of the membership. The concessions of the TWU membership have caused turmoil throughout the whole industry.

 

[Hackman]

Oh Where! Oh Where is Amfa today???

Channel 6 contacted Local Amfa reps and they were unavailable at the time. The TWU members were commenting about the impact on the local economy and the destruction they have inflicted at NW!!

One of the Amfa members talked about the disapointment they have been at representing the NW employees.

Alliance, Kansas City,Tulsa along with the other stations and cities will have a major impact in the local economy if Amfa was successful at winning an election, which is highly unlikely.

Well cio! I can tell where they are NOT, under the concession table with the twu!

You are correct for once cio! The twu 514 members comments are right on track, the negative impact on the local economy and the destruction of NWA mechanics contract GAINS because of the twu concessions. As you know or don't, many airlines now have to try and impose concessions on the mechanics to compete with our 3rd party wages and benefits. Thanks team twu, you brought the whole industry DOWN in record time!

Heres another stupid cio quote:

"Hoped you enjoyed the TWU NEGOTIATED HOLIDAY! OR, Did you give this up also?"

Thanks for your time! TWU SOLIDARITY!
Posted by cio 6/1/2001 themechanic.com

I'll be thinking of you cio when I'm working on Friday, you POS. Don't do us anymore favors and "negotiate" any more holidays for us, ok twu clown?

Can't wait to see your face when your beloved twu goes down in 2004!

 

[TWU informer]

Pretty sad when the TWU has to hire a PR Firm to contact local news channels so they can attempt to influence and convince the membership that the concessions were a good deal.

I wonder how many members show up for work everyday to save jobs, and how many show up for pay and benefits. Be honest. I doubt many members enter the Tulsa Base daily with the idea of saving jobs.

When a member logs into jetnet/e-pays he or she is looking for PAY/BENEFITS.

The TWU supporters even raised a stink when the new vending machine operators raised the price of the candybar 5 cents, but it is OK to give up 17.5% pay and 15% in benefits?? Are TWU advocates really that stupid or what?

I do not mind admitting, that my entire working career, I have gotten out of bed, to go to work to earn pay and benefits for myself and my family. Not once can I remember going to work with a simpleton desire to save someone else a job. That is the job of the Government and Politicians not my union. Watch as they hammer on George W. for loss of jobs, and then claim is it really the TWU's domain when writing propaganda, or interviewing for television.

Keep on using this tactic TWU, let the membership know that it is really all about the dues payers and the dues money with your leadership. Your own membership will simply kick your ass off the property in favor of AMFA, and will do so by your own sword.

I vote for CIO and TEAM TWU as AMFA Organizers of the Month.

 

[Oldweirdharold]

Yes we watched at 6 looking for the answer. Disappointment washed over us as the same old retreaded lies surfaced while union stooge Jerry S. a disgrunteled NWA former IAM member cried in his beer . How much you paying this guy? Even some hardcore TWU people in the room saw for the first time that in fact the emperor has no cloths and resorts to disingenious information. Remember the parable of the little boy that called wolf too many times? TWU you are that little boy, you distort and create fear using misinformation in an attempt to influence the weak and apathetic. Your lies are many but 20,000 mechanics at 8 airlines are not wrong, we will prevail and you will have to answer for the conditions you've had a hand in creating, this is justice. A very interesting condition occured at 10 P.M. when channel six failed to rerun your pep rally, why did they do this? Are you wasting the dues money on this as well, if so you need to get some back as they punked you. Live large boys and you might want to get your tool boxes together because your coming back out to reality soon, we hope you'll enjoy the conditions as they are now.

 

[Boomer]

CIO,

At NWA, the AMFA won an AMT station staffing grievance.

At AA, the TWU ATD refused to file just such a grievance, the Local that covered the station before it was outsourced refused to file just such a grievance and the Local that actually docketed the grievance withdrew it.

Everyone admits that this station should be staffed but no one will do anything about it.

This is just another example of why the majority of the TWU Represented Maintenance & Related Union Members have signed cards for a Union other than the TWU.

 

[Bob Owens]

CIO,

At NWA, the AMFA won an AMT station staffing grievance.

At AA, the TWU ATD refused to file just such a grievance, the Local that covered the station before it was outsourced refused to file just such a grievance and the Local that actually docketed the grievance withdrew it.

Everyone admits that this station should be staffed but no one will do anything about it.

This is just another example of why the majority of the TWU Represented Maintenance & Related Union Members have signed cards for a Union other than the TWU.

A few years back there was a discussion going on in the ready room about AMFA.

A stock clerk was sitting there listening.

When one of the pro-AMFA mechanics there tried to explain that he had nothing against stock clerks the stock clerk interjected,"I dont blame you guys for wanting to get out of the TWU. I've been a TWU member for 30 years. I had them at Pan Am and I have them again at AA. They are the worst union around, at Pan Am they made us give everything away so they could get a few more years of dues out of us and make some executives rich, I just wish that we had someplace else to go but all the unions that represent stock clerks are in the AFL-CIO and none of them will accept us."

Well things are changing. Now other ground workers have an option- The Allied Ground Workers.

The AGW seeks to unite all the ground workers, with the exception of M&R, into one union.

What would that do? Well essentailly, what is the difference between a baggage handler and a Longshoreman?

They both essentially do the same jobs, they load and unload commercial vessels.

Then why is there such a huge difference in pay?

Their Unions.

Longshoremen belong to two different unions, both focused on longshoreman. One union controls the east coast and the other controls the west coast. They do not "compete" against each other for dues. These unions do not go out and simply try to organize anyone who is willing to pay dues. The longshoremen organize Seaports, not just employers. If one employer pulls out, another pulls in. These unions do not underbid each other like the TWU,IAM or IBT in order to save "jobs'-(dues). If a longshoreman is working he is going to get longshoremans rates-period. They dont care who the company is, this is what you are going to pay.

If Airline ground workers organized under a similar concept they could basically organize airports, instead of just airlines.

If several different unions split up the work on the docks and competed with each other along corporate lines, constantly underbidding each other the job of a longshoreman would be no better than that of a baggage handler.

Longshoring is an ancient profesion that is under constant pressures to change, and the union adapts to those changes without resorting to telling their workers to work for less. They dont do this because they are not worried that if they dont some other union, who is more "cooperative" with the company will help that company to grow at the expense of higher paid workers at other companies. The Longshoremen operate under true "union" principles, they look at other longshoremen as brothers and not as potentail competitors or scabs. They are brothers because they are in the same union. They accept the fact that during slow times they will have to bite the bullett and accept layoffs. They preserve the rates.

The airline industry on the other hand is an industry that is just entering its mature stage. While the industry has matured, the structure of its unions remains unchanged from what it was in the very beginning and the regulated era that followed. One of the major events affecting this industry was deregulation. The unions completely failed to respond to deregulation in a way that protects the members. Instead of a complete restructuring and consolidation each union set out to maintain its shares of dues payers at the expense of wages and benifits. What followed was 20 years of deception, sellouts and suffering on the part of airline workers. For the unions however one was clearly advancing-the TWU. However its advances came at the expense of TWU members wages and benifits.

Under the regulated era the divied up union structure based upon employer was acceptable, living standards increased. Productivity improvements driven by technological advances allowed the industry to elevate living standards while also decreasing the cost of air travel. However with the deregulated era competition between carriers was introduced and labor costs became the vital component of competativeness. Airline workers were put into competition with one another. If the unions were willing to establish standards and strategies then the workers would have been protected from this, but unions like the TWU saw this as an opportunity to gain members from other much larger unions.

By cooperating with American Airlines the union enjoyed increased membership as the concessions they gave to AA helped that company to expand at the expense of other airlines. Other unions, in order to keep "their airline" in operation were pressured to try and match the TWU engineered lower cost structure. Workers in the airline industry were put in a race to the bottom by unions that were more concerned with preserving their dues base than elevating their members living standards.

Throughout the 80s and 90s, overall demand for air travel continued to grow, however AA with its much lower labor costs was able to corner a disproportionate share of that added demand. They were marketed as a full service carrier, yet their labor costs made them more like a LCC.

The unions try to tell us that the recent events affecting this industry are what caused us to endure the massive concessions that were thrust upon us. But these things, terrorism and the recession have impacted all areas of the economy, why are airline workers the only ones that have seen such massive reductions in pay and benifits? The crisis was real, the response was surreal. It was beyond the pale. The airlines did not make any serious efforts react to the crisis, instead they exploited it as an opportunity.

Clearly our unions failed to organize an effective strategy to preserve our living standards. Instead they seemed to be aiding the airlines in an attempt to exploit the crisis' in order to lower their labor costs to gain a competative edge. First USAIR, then UAL, both of these airlines had a long period preceeding Sept 11 of Financial difficulties. AA however went into this period the most healthy. A result of having 20 years of TWU engineered lower labor costs than its competitors. As AA saw this advantage likely to dissappear it apparently set out to exploit, or at least threaten to exploit the advantages of bankruptcy protection like its competitors. Its competitors in bankruptcy were finally able to get similar concessions that the TWU had given AA nearly 20 years earlier.

Once again the TWU "rose to the occasion" in behalf of the company and granted the company the lowest labor costs in the industry without the expense and long term repercussions of entering bankruptcy protection. The TWU granted AA massive costs savings beyond what USAIR and UAL recived under the 1113 threat by stripping its members of Sick time, holidays, health benifits, shift differentials, double time, and scores of other work rules and benifits. Cuts that lowered AA/TWU members condtions below that of most non-union workers of simliar classification.

In our industry the unions and the companys act like partners in competition with other company/union partnerships where the members are the commodity. The union acts as the broker and salesman to the members in order to get its company the best deal. The company benifits through lower labor costs, the union benifits from more membership, the members get lower wages and less benifits. And the best part is that the members foot most of the bill for the services that the union provides for the company.

Hasnt any one ever wondered why the company agreed to pay the salaries of the over 20 AA TWU Local Presidents? This agreement was put in place in 1999 between the International and the company without any input or notification to the membership. This was all done during a period of rising dissention throughout the union in response to the combined effects of a hugely concessionary six year contract that coincided with the greatest period of prosperity and expansion that the economy had ever seen. The 6 year TWU agreement had effectivly denied TWU/AA members from sharing in that prosperity.

Naturally after twenty years of concessionary bargaining there would start to be resistance within the union, especially along the local level, where there is some measure of accountability to the members for the performance of the union. The resistance that was starting to arise, spearheaded by large Locals like 501, must have concerned the International, who despite the fact that they had complete control over the contract, may have seen the militant positions of these locals as a threat to their cozy relationship with the company. Some of these militant locals were well funded and had considerable resources. During the 1997 Convention these locals joined forces with Militant factions of Local 100 who were on the rise within that Local. An incident and crisis gave the International the excuse to split up those large locals. In order to make the smaller locals more viable the company gave them financial support. Obviously the union convinced the company that the expense would be well worth it. The result was more locals being supported by the same fixed amount of resources. In other words the membership was watered down.

The strategy of the International TWU is clear. Keep the members uninformed, divided and unable to mount an effective resistance and, most importantly afraid. The International assumes a paternalistic position that demands unquestioning loyalty while it uses that position to hide its real goals.

The TWU/Internationals plan is to continue to give AA a competative edge to gain more members at the expense of other unions. For us, its members it means that we will win the race to the bottom, and we will have funded that pyrrhic victory.

There is only one clear answer for all of us. Get out of these unions that use us as fodder for their competative contest. A contest that benifits the employer instead of the members. We need to get into unions that seek to organize us by industry and classification instead of by employer. In this way we benifit as members that have a union that seeks to promote the welfare and standing of the profession instead of the bottom line of one particular corporation.

For mechanics this means AMFA, for all other ground workers this means the AGW. Those are the options, finally all ground workers have options. The question is will we chose to stay with what has not worked for 20 years or try something new?

 

[Boomer]

Mr. Owens,

I understand why the TWU would be against the AGW and against AMFA.

But given the TWU's preoccupation with dues paying members, I cannot understand why a mediocre bunch of unelected bureaucrats at the ATD, the TWU International, Local 510 and Local 562 refused to pursue a station staffing grievance that would have netted the TWU MORE dues paying members?

After all, anyone staffed in CLT would come from another TWU station. That TWU station is staffed with the number of personnel required for the operation. Moving personnel from another station to CLT would create a vacancy and thus bring back another dues payer==a goal near and dear to the TWU's collective heart.

If everyone refuses to go forward on a clear contractual violation--why?

What deal is in the works that could be screwed up if this grievance is pursued?

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[Buck]

I am curious why those of you who have tired of the TWU, continue to pay them? You have contractual rights to limit their ability to function.

 

[MADAMT]

Mr. Owens,

I understand why the TWU would be against the AGW and against AMFA.

But given the TWU's preoccupation with dues paying members, I cannot understand why a mediocre bunch of unelected bureaucrats at the ATD, the TWU International, Local 510 and Local 562 refused to pursue a station staffing grievance that would have netted the TWU MORE dues paying members?

After all, anyone staffed in CLT would come from another TWU station. That TWU station is staffed with the number of personnel required for the operation. Moving personnel from another station to CLT would create a vacancy and thus bring back another dues payer==a goal near and dear to the TWU's collective heart.

If everyone refuses to go forward on a clear contractual violation--why?

What deal is in the works that could be screwed up if this grievance is pursued?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Boomer

As I understand it, 562 was not the proper greivant as there were no Title I personnel in CTL, it was brought forward and I think the International did not want to put the case on. 562 would have expended the money from it own accounts and not had gained anything for its membership. Title II were the Title group that was in CTL and should have been restaffed.

The International did not want to put it on, more important why didn't 510 file the greivance as this is their local?

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

CIO,

At NWA, the AMFA won an AMT station staffing grievance.

At AA, the TWU ATD refused to file just such a grievance, the Local that covered the station before it was outsourced refused to file just such a grievance and the Local that actually docketed the grievance withdrew it.

Everyone admits that this station should be staffed but no one will do anything about it.

This is just another example of why the majority of the TWU Represented Maintenance & Related Union Members have signed cards for a Union other than the TWU.

A few years back there was a discussion going on in the ready room about AMFA.

A stock clerk was sitting there listening.

When one of the pro-AMFA mechanics there tried to explain that he had nothing against stock clerks the stock clerk interjected,"I dont blame you guys for wanting to get out of the TWU. I've been a TWU member for 30 years. I had them at Pan Am and I have them again at AA. They are the worst union around, at Pan Am they made us give everything away so they could get a few more years of dues out of us and make some executives rich, I just wish that we had someplace else to go but all the unions that represent stock clerks are in the AFL-CIO and none of them will accept us."

Well things are changing. Now other ground workers have an option- The Allied Ground Workers.

The AGW seeks to unite all the ground workers, with the exception of M&R, into one union.

What would that do? Well essentailly, what is the difference between a baggage handler and a Longshoreman?

They both essentially do the same jobs, they load and unload commercial vessels.

Then why is there such a huge difference in pay?

Their Unions.

Longshoremen belong to two different unions, both focused on longshoreman. One union controls the east coast and the other controls the west coast. They do not "compete" against each other for dues. These unions do not go out and simply try to organize anyone who is willing to pay dues. The longshoremen organize Seaports, not just employers. If one employer pulls out, another pulls in. These unions do not underbid each other like the TWU,IAM or IBT in order to save "jobs'-(dues). If a longshoreman is working he is going to get longshoremans rates-period. They dont care who the company is, this is what you are going to pay.

If Airline ground workers organized under a similar concept they could basically organize airports, instead of just airlines.

If several different unions split up the work on the docks and competed with each other along corporate lines, constantly underbidding each other the job of a longshoreman would be no better than that of a baggage handler.

Longshoring is an ancient profesion that is under constant pressures to change, and the union adapts to those changes without resorting to telling their workers to work for less. They dont do this because they are not worried that if they dont some other union, who is more "cooperative" with the company will help that company to grow at the expense of higher paid workers at other companies. The Longshoremen operate under true "union" principles, they look at other longshoremen as brothers and not as potentail competitors or scabs. They are brothers because they are in the same union. They accept the fact that during slow times they will have to bite the bullett and accept layoffs. They preserve the rates.

The airline industry on the other hand is an industry that is just entering its mature stage. While the industry has matured, the structure of its unions remains unchanged from what it was in the very beginning and the regulated era that followed. One of the major events affecting this industry was deregulation. The unions completely failed to respond to deregulation in a way that protects the members. Instead of a complete restructuring and consolidation each union set out to maintain its shares of dues payers at the expense of wages and benifits. What followed was 20 years of deception, sellouts and suffering on the part of airline workers. For the unions however one was clearly advancing-the TWU. However its advances came at the expense of TWU members wages and benifits.

Under the regulated era the divied up union structure based upon employer was acceptable, living standards increased. Productivity improvements driven by technological advances allowed the industry to elevate living standards while also decreasing the cost of air travel. However with the deregulated era competition between carriers was introduced and labor costs became the vital component of competativeness. Airline workers were put into competition with one another. If the unions were willing to establish standards and strategies then the workers would have been protected from this, but unions like the TWU saw this as an opportunity to gain members from other much larger unions.

By cooperating with American Airlines the union enjoyed increased membership as the concessions they gave to AA helped that company to expand at the expense of other airlines. Other unions, in order to keep "their airline" in operation were pressured to try and match the TWU engineered lower cost structure. Workers in the airline industry were put in a race to the bottom by unions that were more concerned with preserving their dues base than elevating their members living standards.

Throughout the 80s and 90s, overall demand for air travel continued to grow, however AA with its much lower labor costs was able to corner a disproportionate share of that added demand. They were marketed as a full service carrier, yet their labor costs made them more like a LCC.

The unions try to tell us that the recent events affecting this industry are what caused us to endure the massive concessions that were thrust upon us. But these things, terrorism and the recession have impacted all areas of the economy, why are airline workers the only ones that have seen such massive reductions in pay and benifits? The crisis was real, the response was surreal. It was beyond the pale. The airlines did not make any serious efforts react to the crisis, instead they exploited it as an opportunity.

Clearly our unions failed to organize an effective strategy to preserve our living standards. Instead they seemed to be aiding the airlines in an attempt to exploit the crisis' in order to lower their labor costs to gain a competative edge. First USAIR, then UAL, both of these airlines had a long period preceeding Sept 11 of Financial difficulties. AA however went into this period the most healthy. A result of having 20 years of TWU engineered lower labor costs than its competitors. As AA saw this advantage likely to dissappear it apparently set out to exploit, or at least threaten to exploit the advantages of bankruptcy protection like its competitors. Its competitors in bankruptcy were finally able to get similar concessions that the TWU had given AA nearly 20 years earlier.

Once again the TWU "rose to the occasion" in behalf of the company and granted the company the lowest labor costs in the industry without the expense and long term repercussions of entering bankruptcy protection. The TWU granted AA massive costs savings beyond what USAIR and UAL recived under the 1113 threat by stripping its members of Sick time, holidays, health benifits, shift differentials, double time, and scores of other work rules and benifits. Cuts that lowered AA/TWU members condtions below that of most non-union workers of simliar classification.

In our industry the unions and the companys act like partners in competition with other company/union partnerships where the members are the commodity. The union acts as the broker and salesman to the members in order to get its company the best deal. The company benifits through lower labor costs, the union benifits from more membership, the members get lower wages and less benifits. And the best part is that the members foot most of the bill for the services that the union provides for the company.

Hasnt any one ever wondered why the company agreed to pay the salaries of the over 20 AA TWU Local Presidents? This agreement was put in place in 1999 between the International and the company without any input or notification to the membership. This was all done during a period of rising dissention throughout the union in response to the combined effects of a hugely concessionary six year contract that coincided with the greatest period of prosperity and expansion that the economy had ever seen. The 6 year TWU agreement had effectivly denied TWU/AA members from sharing in that prosperity.

Naturally after twenty years of concessionary bargaining there would start to be resistance within the union, especially along the local level, where there is some measure of accountability to the members for the performance of the union. The resistance that was starting to arise, spearheaded by large Locals like 501, must have concerned the International, who despite the fact that they had complete control over the contract, may have seen the militant positions of these locals as a threat to their cozy relationship with the company. Some of these militant locals were well funded and had considerable resources. During the 1997 Convention these locals joined forces with Militant factions of Local 100 who were on the rise within that Local. An incident and crisis gave the International the excuse to split up those large locals. In order to make the smaller locals more viable the company gave them financial support. Obviously the union convinced the company that the expense would be well worth it. The result was more locals being supported by the same fixed amount of resources. In other words the membership was watered down.

The strategy of the International TWU is clear. Keep the members uninformed, divided and unable to mount an effective resistance and, most importantly afraid. The International assumes a paternalistic position that demands unquestioning loyalty while it uses that position to hide its real goals.

The TWU/Internationals plan is to continue to give AA a competative edge to gain more members at the expense of other unions. For us, its members it means that we will win the race to the bottom, and we will have funded that pyrrhic victory.

There is only one clear answer for all of us. Get out of these unions that use us as fodder for their competative contest. A contest that benifits the employer instead of the members. We need to get into unions that seek to organize us by industry and classification instead of by employer. In this way we benifit as members that have a union that seeks to promote the welfare and standing of the profession instead of the bottom line of one particular corporation.

For mechanics this means AMFA, for all other ground workers this means the AGW. Those are the options, finally all ground workers have options. The question is will we chose to stay with what has not worked for 20 years or try something new?

Bob Owens,
Kudo's on a FABULOUS post.

The only thing that could have been added(about the Longshoremen) is that when they go on strike(and before the feds hit the with the Taft Hartley act), that NO ONE, I repeat NO ONE even "thinks" about "attempting" to cross the picket line !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOD, how I yearn for those days !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NH/BB's
(TWU) "UNFORTUNEATLY"

 

[Boomer]

MADAMT,

Please explain how a member of the M&R can grieve a contractual violation and not be the proper grievant? Is Geography or Local affiliation now an affirmative defense?

While the BWI/CLE case held that the '95 M&R station staffing requirement is applied to each versus every classification covered by that agreement, the failure of the company to staff ANY member of M&R to CLT opened an opportunity for the TWU to revise the BWI/CLE holding.

The withdrawl of the grievance by Local 562 now creates a bar to a CLT grievance over the same issue with respect to time limits and the previous unfulfilled demand by the ATD to staff said station. Further, if the company wanted to attack the BWI/CLE arbitration holding they could now stand on the failure of the Union to process the CLT grievance and de-staff the remaining Title II only stations that are staffed and over the departure threshold. How many Title II jobs would be lost?

FACTS:

(1)-CLT was historically staffed by Ramp and at least one M&R TWU Member prior to the, "farce-manure" of '01.

(2)-Subsequent to the, "farce-manure" the single former Title II employee was riffed and retired. The company failed to fill ANY M&R position in CLT after being demanded to so by the ATD.

(3)-The withdrawn grievance from Local 562 was pending during that time frame and thus there was no bar to the issue being raised by either the TWU ATD, Local 510, Local 562 or ANY TWU Local.

(4)-Time limits and past practice have succesfully been used by the company during previous issues related to station staffing and cross utilization during 29D hearings.

(5)-The withdrawl by Local 562 was without notice of ability to refile same, meaning they cannot refile the same case unless the company agrees to refrain from citing time limits as a defense.


The bottom line is that the TWU ATD, Local 510 and Local 562 refused to enforce the contract, put more Maintenance & Related Union members at risk by those actions and created a DFR violation. What action may be taken by those affected by the consequence of these actions is for those affected to determine.

In the present case and in all likelyhood, the AMT in question will not file a DFR due to the cost involved and the absence of a monetary damages; further, hurdling the bar of a combined company/union defense on the merits of the case creates a huge obstacle that is better countered through support for the replacement of the TWU as the Maintenance & Related's bargaining agent.