TWU Screw is about to be implemented

[TWU informer]

 

[Anomaly]

Things seem to be deteriorating at SWA - Excerpt from AMFA website notice:



AIRCRAFT MECHANICS FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION

AMFA Local 11 ● 1420 W. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 285 ● Dallas, TX 75247 PHONE 214-366-4546 ● FAX 214-366-4546


Final and Binding

Dear Members our Company Leaders recent decision not to honor an arbitration ruling, (SWA -2587) that favored the Union is and should be a matter of great concern. The processes involved in Negotiating contracts requires a certain level of trust between the two parties, the idea being that both parties negotiate in good faith and subsequently honor all the negotiated language/agreements.

Over the past couple of years it has become clear that the Company is not playing fair. Southwest Airlines has a unique advantage over the AMFA covered employees, that whenever they choose they can and have ignored the terms of our CBA and the Union is left with no other option than to follow the grievance process. The slow and cumbersome process favors the Company; while the employees are denied certain negotiated rights the company realizes synergies i.e. cost savings. The monetary gains of the Company are at the direct expense of the employees, for example.

The Company has failed to meet its obligation to start a fourth line of maintenance within the specified time line agreed to in our CBA. A promise they made in order to gain our consent for international outsourcing.

Our Company is currently practicing an attendance policy that causes employees undue stress when they have the misfortune of becoming ill or injured. Per our CBA any employee who is legitimately sick or injured may take sick leave with pay. However per the new Company policy, if this should happen four times or nine days within a twelve month period the employee will automatically receive a disciplinary letter, notwithstanding the employee providing a legitimate Doctors note.

Southwest Airlines Leadership experienced several victories over the Union via the arbitration process, a process negotiated within the guidelines of the Railway Labor Act, and agreed to by both parties. The Company won the Holiday movement arbitration, a ruling that diminished our earning opportunities and saved the company money. The Company won the crown skin arbitration; they successfully outsourced work that is customarily ours. The Company won the Laptop arbitration, again successfully outsourcing work that is customarily ours.

During the month of May 2011 the Company experienced a rare loss via arbitration regarding the filling of temporary vacancies within the inspection classification. Within days of the ruling Company leadership began asking the Union for relief from the ruling, the Union politely said no. The Company next made it known to the Inspectors that if the Union did not provide relief the Company might abolish positions within the inspection classification; only weeks after adding twelve new positions. Now twelve months later our Company Leadership has decided to reinterpret the plain language of the Arbitrators ruling, creating the exact same dispute that originally drove the grievance (SWA – 2587) to arbitration.

Really?? Is this all you have?? If you can read this is a union that fights for it's members when the company does not follow an arbitration ruling. Once again you just pointed out a good deed by AMFA, and once again we all thank you. Please continue to post for the teamsters or the TWU, your doing a great job. This crap goes on at all the airlines. At least AMFA doesn't give up on it's members like the TWU and teamsters with conssesions. Your post makes no sence what so ever...

amfa admits it can do nothing but follow the slow steps of the grievance process, and fail to force the company to abide by the contract, or the arbitration decisions.

My Question to you SWAMT, WHAT IS THE GOOD DEED? Your association is failing you!!

 

[Anomaly]

WE THE MEMBERS will write our own story with AMFA at American Airlines and it will be a different story than each of those other stories.

And if the AMT's of this industry ever pull their heads out


And as long as fools fail to grasp that concept

Meanwhile we all fight amongst ourselves, blame each other, or one of the unions

now we are in a race to the bottom in every aspect of those past gains, with management using the concessions of each industrial union as a tool to reduce the cost a their Airline.

Because we are idiots and continously fighting with each other and blaming each others union

Maybe someday, before it is too late, we will be smart enough to understand

AMT's like yourself are against the idea, yet it has never been tried.

AMT's like yourself claim the idea has already failed, yet is has never been tried.

AMT's like yourself advocate the status quo of representation which has represented the MAJORITY of this profession for over 60 years....and that has been tried and has FAILED.

Think about that and get back with me....

FAIL 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄

Why do you think so little of the AMT's?

 

[swamt]

Not so sure you are an SWA mechanic either. Your "first hand" knowledge consistently seems to be inconsistent.

I assure you I am a SWA mech. My first hand knowlege is far more advanced than you know. Every single post that you, Anomaly, have posted, has been proven wrong and misleading, except for one, and only one. Your credibility is completely gone Anomaly. Gotta love this stuff man...

 

[xUT]

amfa admits it can do nothing but follow the slow steps of the grievance process, and fail to force the company to abide by the contract, or the arbitration decisions.

My Question to you SWAMT, WHAT IS THE GOOD DEED? Your association is failing you!!

And what does the mighty ibt do?
NAFT!
You are a supposedly UAL M&R, how do you feel about the ibt s-Cal hiring off the street while UAL M&R are still on furlough?
What has the great and mighty ibt done?
NAFT!
Now that s-Cal is building new hangers in NJ while SFO has empty hangers, what is the mighty ibt doing to bring that work to SFO?
NAFT!
The mighty ibt went door to door to the laid off UA M&R and promised them pie-in-the-sky recall, pensions and job security.
Now the ibt drops them like a bad habit.
That lifetime recall clause was/is a two edged sword.
B) xUT

 

[xUT]

amfa admits it can do nothing but follow the slow steps of the grievance process, and fail to force the company to abide by the contract, or the arbitration decisions.

My Question to you SWAMT, WHAT IS THE GOOD DEED? Your association is failing you!!

Yea, they should have a tool drop and some snake on a t-shirt.
That'll teach em... LOL
B) xUT

 

[DNTULSA]

amfa admits it can do nothing but follow the slow steps of the grievance process, and fail to force the company to abide by the contract, or the arbitration decisions.

My Question to you SWAMT, WHAT IS THE GOOD DEED? Your association is failing you!!

The scary thing is that anomaly is considered one of the teamster intellectuals!

 

[Buster CRC]

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[AC Tynker]

The scary thing is that anomaly is considered one of the teamster intellectuals!

They actually call him an AMT that has been there done that with AMFA representation.

 

[Buck]

They actually call him an AMT that has been there done that with AMFA representation.

What does that mean?

He tried AMFA and was not happy? Why was he as an individual not happy?

 

[TWU informer]

They actually call him an AMT that has been there done that with AMFA representation.

He is nothing more than just like you....

A Chronic Complainer

Only he is an appointed complainer getting paid, and you do it for a free tshirt.

 

[swamt]

amfa admits it can do nothing but follow the slow steps of the grievance process, and fail to force the company to abide by the contract, or the arbitration decisions.

My Question to you SWAMT, WHAT IS THE GOOD DEED? Your association is failing you!!

Anomaly,

You are starting to bore. Once again you have no facts. The two items you bring up in your comment are still in works. You attempt at saying AMFA failed is once again misleading.
The attendance arbitration was put on hold by the arbitrator. They will be reconveining later this month for the final decision to be announced. So far neither side has won or lost the attendace arbitration.
The other item you ask of is the backfilling of inspectors, this one was won in arbitration by AMFA, the company first started to follow the arbitrators ruling, then all of a sudden stopped following it and told AMFA that the arbitrator (in their eyes) meant something else, therefore they (the company) filed to get an clerified explanation from the arbitrator himself, so therefore that one is also on hold as well.

Once again someone splewing out information that they know nothing about to try and discredit AMFA in any way they can. Pls keep posting--Your only helping AMFA more and more...
Any more questions??

 

[AC Tynker]

He is nothing more than just like you....

A Chronic Complainer

Only he is an appointed complainer getting paid, and you do it for a free tshirt.

That was dumb

 

[Bob Owens]

We are industry leading, we have the highest percentage of labor and material maintenance spend in-house per our contract language.

And Walmart employs more people as well. Walmart may be "Industry Leading" but are its employees? Should Walmart employees disregard their pay and working conditions and simply be proud of the fact that Walmart employs more people than anyone else? AA may be industry leading in that they employ more mechanics but are their mechanics Industry leading?? Should mechanics at AA disreagard the fact that they have done more damage to the compensation levels in this industry for mechanics than the $5/hr workers in Central America and take pride in the fact that AA gets to pay much less than their competitors for mechanics labor thanks to people like you? The answer is no, to all of them.

 

[whatajoke]

This site especially the AA blog part is the reason most will vote for no union if there is ever a vote. My last post on this site. F--k you B-B.