Why does Local 100 do better for their members than the 21 seperate locals who all operate under the same AA contracts do?
Simple, because Local 100 owns the contract, the members of Local 100 get to pick who controls their contract and who signs it into effect.
Its the same reason why the SWA Flight Attendants do better than AA TWU represented workers.
THEY OWN THE CONTRACT and they have electoral accountability over those who administer it.
At AA none of the 21 Locals at AA have authority over the contract, the International owns the contract. As owners of the contract they can do as they like and not be held accountable by the members that work under the contract.
At Local 100 the dues from the MTA go directly to Local 100. Local 100 then pays the International. At the 21 locals at AA the dues go to the International, then the International pays the locals. The AA Locals work for the International like stewards work for Local 100.
The leaders of Local 100 face an election every three years where the members who work under the deals these leaders negotiate get to hold them accountable, TWU members at AA NEVER get to hold the people responsible for the deals their union bosses put in place accountable. Whereas Local 100 members automatically get the rights of accountability every three years the only way AA members can do this is to find or form a new union, get 50%+1 to file cards calling for an election and have it approved by the NMB. To date that has not happened.
So at Local 100 the people who control the contract work for the members at the members discretion but at AA the people who control the contract do not work for the members, in fact even the people that the members elect to run their powerless locals dont work for them, they work for the International because thats who writes the checks for the locals.
Local 100 has 35000 members, all in one local, the AA system has less than that yet are spread out into 21 locals with no say over the contracts, thats why Local 100 does better for their members.
PS, if we had been getting COLA raises all along, which is the big concession that Boeing workers agreed to, we would be earning around $40/hr by now.
PSS Rojer Toussaint has been reelected by the members of Local 100, much to the dissapointment of the TWU International.
