It's called separate negotiation Old guy. That is the way you want it. If you are so enchanted by what the other groups got in their negotiation maybe you should 12m transfer into one of their title groups. 😛
Separate negotiations?
An interesting point came out during the BK hearings, The company demanded that I leave the room while they discussed numbers. At first I refused to leave, I said I had already signed their confidentiality letter so I had access to all that info anyway, then they said that I didn't, that the info they were to discuss was only shared with the "high level negotiators, all the international people were allowed to stay. So the company admitted that we really weren't the negotiators, thats why they list the elected negotiators as "witnesses" in the contract. The contract is negotiated by the AATD, we are allowed to sit in on parts of the discussion, then we sit in a room and debate, Don would pull guys aside, give a nod, and on cue they would make motions. When the Fleet service guys would show up we knew that a vote was coming. It was all a show to get the "committee" to agree to what Don had already decided for us. The idea being that when we left we would go back to our members and sell it, because if the members knew that Don negotiated it there is no way it would pass. The added plus is that when the dust settles and the members realize how bad the deal is the ATD sits back and blames the elected witnesses, so the next round they get all new "witnesses" and do the same scam all over again. Unfortunately for Don we would not agree to support this deal and the ATD had to sell it, so this time when the dust settles the blame will lie where it belongs. So, to retaliate against us Don came up with a plan to wipe out all the uncooperative locals and reward the cooperative one. He devised a plan to send Title II line mechanics to Fleet Service locals, send whats left of 567 and DWH to Tulsa to ensure that Tulsa retains the ability to outvote all the other line mechanics , eliminate 5 mechanics from the next negotiating committee and adding three more Fleet service clerks. With Dons plan, in 2018 there could be just 2 aircraft mechanics with 11 Fleet service clerks on the M&R committee. Seperate negotiations? 5 FSC for each aircraft mechanic on the M&R committee? Are you for real?
I have to wonder if his real intent was to help the teamster drive? Surely he knows that when mechanics see the new structure, which is worse than what we have now, that the mechanics would figure out that the only way to get FSC Presidents out of the M&R "negotiations" would be for M&R to leave the TWU and go to a different union. The fact that according to their plan this was to be crammed down our throats without a vote further supports that the intent was to further alienate members from the TWU, luckily, so far, the IEC has not been too receptive to the idea of liquidating 6 locals without the members consent. They did a hard sell, with the aid of Donnelly's math, to convince the IEC that the Locals would fail due to the loss of UBB, but the IEC didn't like the fact that they never even let the Locals that were going to be dissolved submit a business plan to deal with the loss of UBB. I've asked for a copy of what Donnelly drew up for Local 562, I have not received it. If you recall after we rejected the TA and came up with a new table position where he claimed we were asking for a $1billion contract, after we questioned some of his assumptions he knocked it down to $750 million, only $250 million off. I would love to see what assumptions he made with his projections as far as our Local finances. Since I havent been allowed to see it I suspect that he used the company's UBB numbers, The company claimed we had 4 guys on UBB, we only ever had one. He most likely "assumed" that we would have to pay four guys full time UB, and most likely at the company's stated annual cost per mechanic, which includes benefits, overtime (12%?) and overhead. We were never given the opportunity to review or challenge Donnelly's projections. Over time this would have all eventually come out, so I have to wonder what their true intent was? I have to wonder if the IBT has already promised the M&R guys at the ATD positions in the IBT should they win? I was contacted by the IBT, but unlike Todd Woodward I did not meet with them. I told him that my objective was to try and fix what we have. seems like some in the ATD are trying to break it even more than it already is,
