TWU T-shirts - Slogans - Whine Rally

[TWU informer]

From SkyTalk Star-Telegram

April 10, 2009
TWU planning big protest at AA next week
We're hearing that the Transport Workers Union, which represents thousands of mechanics and other ground workers at American Airlines, is planning a large protest near American headquarters in Fort Worth next week. The union will be protesting the stock bonuses for top executives and managers that are scheduled to pay out on April 16.

Details are sketchy, but the assembly's theme will involve "canceled checks" ... stay tuned.

- Trebor Banstetter

Here come the TWU t-shirts - Slogans - And Public Whine Festival

Of course the day after this rally, the TWU will be back under management's desk "working together", while claiming not to be "working together".

The TWU doesn't protest about not having a Labor Agreement, but will make a rediculous rally that has no meaning and doesnt effect the outcome one bit.

TWU members should leave this rally and have another outside the TWU ATD office and demand Jim Little and the other comrades of the appointed elite take a pay cut equal to the membership until such time that they are negotiated an agreement on our behalf.

 

[BigMac]

The 737 is set to be a big news story Monday in Hangar 6c.
There has been security guards 24/7 watching only the stage that has been up all weekend.
Tulsa Mayor, AA big wigs and Media are supposed to be there Monday also.
Coincidence with the TWU apparel being handed out ?
I'll be in my PUP shirt B)

 

[iluvaa]

And you said you were done posting here, I knew you would be back.

 

[eolesen]

TWU members should leave this rally and have another outside the TWU ATD office and demand Jim Little and the other comrades of the appointed elite take a pay cut equal to the membership until such time that they are negotiated an agreement on our behalf.

Imagine that... a tea party. Seems to be all the rage in what's left of America (as opposed to Amerika).

 

[American Air Surf]

Here come the TWU t-shirts - Slogans - And Public Whine Festival

Of course the day after this rally, the TWU will be back under management's desk "working together", while claiming not to be "working together".

The TWU doesn't protest about not having a Labor Agreement, but will make a rediculous rally that has no meaning and doesnt effect the outcome one bit.

TWU members should leave this rally and have another outside the TWU ATD office and demand Jim Little and the other comrades of the appointed elite take a pay cut equal to the membership until such time that they are negotiated an agreement on our behalf.

Don't show up for the TWU rally at HDQ. TWU Local- 513 couldn't even get more that 250 in fleet service (out of 3000) to sign up for informational picketeing.

The TWU is a weak union, which is effectually enforced by all it's domino's playing members, who don't even know the contract they work under. The memebers would probably embrace another $5.00 cut in pay, since they didn't have a problem giving away everything else in 2003.

AA wasn't stupid on who they hired for Fleet Service.

 

[TWU informer]

Why can't the TWU see the facts?
Is it because their own smoke screen blinds them from the clear view?

The TWU has spent who knows how much on full page ads in the newspapers.

Results = ZERO

Now the TWU plans informational picketing and a rally at Headquarters. Been tried before.

Results = ZERO

This fall the TWU will spend another boat load of membership dues money on a Constitutional Convention Party. Done every 4 years.

Results = ZERO

The TWU is only the bargaining agent for the Mechanic and Related Group because the AmeriKan Federal Government refused the membership the right to vote via ballot on the representation of their choice. If you are only on the property by virtue of rejecting a ballot, how can you claim to have membership support? If the TWU feared the ballot, they knew what the outcome would be.

Now the TWU wants the AmeriKan Government to allow unionization on card signatures and deny the right to a secret ballot.

No wonder Organized Labor is failing and shrinking at an alarming rate.

The Membership of the TWU needs you to spend more time negotiating and less time generating smoke and these items of false sense of security.

T-Shirts - Slogans - Newspaper Ads - Whine Rallies - Working Together

Results = ZERO

 

[enough already]

And the choir being preached to said "AMEN!!!" :angry:

 

[TWU informer]

Why was the US Government so upset about AIG Executive Bonuses after Taxpayer Bailout and not Airlines Executive Bonuses after Taxpayer Bailout?

A brief search of Business Week archives shows AMR got $915,000,000.00

$915 Million in Taxpaer Bailout Funds

AMR will receive the most aid, an estimated $915 million, followed by UAL, at $804 million. No. 5 Continental gets $396 million, while American Trans Air Inc. (AMT ), which ranks 10th, will get $51 million. All told, passenger airlines will get an estimated $4.5 billion, while cargo-only carriers will receive $500 million.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/conte...41/b3752735.htm


$4.5 Billion Dollars in Taxpayer Bailout Funds and Executive Bonus Awards nearly every year since.....

 

[eolesen]

Nice try, but it wasn't a bailout. It was restitution for the government imposed shutdown of airspace.

 

[enough already]

Nice try, but it wasn't a bailout. It was restitution for the government imposed shutdown of airspace.

Well, I want restitution for the compAAny imposed shutdown of my wage scale and benefits!!!

 

[Birdman]

Nice try, but it wasn't a bailout. It was restitution for the government imposed shutdown of airspace.

Congress approves $15 billion airline BAILOUT
September 22, 2001 Posted: 12:35 AM EDT (0435 GMT)

"I think this assistance is too generous, it gives too much money, it goes far beyond compensating the airlines for those three days that government edict was in effect and the question I have is clearly we are compensating them for far more," said (Sen. Peter) Fitzgerald (R-Ill.), who like some other Republicans, openly worried that the bill was being passed too fast.

Perhaps some was restitution, but not all.

 

[FWAAA]

Why was the US Government so upset about AIG Executive Bonuses after Taxpayer Bailout and not Airlines Executive Bonuses after Taxpayer Bailout?

Probably because of the close temporal connection between the AIG bailout and their executive bonus payments (almost simultaneously). With the airline relief (restitution/bailout/whatever you want to call it), AA didn't pay any executive variable comp (or bonuses/whatever you want to call them) in 2001 or any year until 2006, when it looked like the airline's finances had finally recovered. Of course, everyone saw (and correctly predicted) that oil would hit $147/bbl two years after the first PUP payout.

I'm certain that people would have screamed bloody murder had AA or another loser legacy paid out executive bonuses in 2001 or 2002. But by 2006, enough time had passed to prevent the PUP/PSP payouts from being directly connected to the Airline Stabilization Act.

$4.5 Billion Dollars in Taxpayer Bailout Funds and Executive Bonus Awards nearly every year since.....

Nearly every year since? 2006-08 is nearly every year since 2001? Maybe on your calendars.

Serious question: Should the receipt of federal money restrict companies from ever paying out bonuses?

If so, then better get ready to repay that $800 every AA employee received in late 2007 in lieu of profit sharing (when AA misssed the target but paid out $64 million to the employees anyway).

 

[Hopeful]

If so, then better get ready to repay that $800 every AA employee received in late 2007 in lieu of profit sharing (when AA misssed the target but paid out $64 million to the employees anyway).

OOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhh......$800.......What's the executive PUP payout again this year?

You really worship these executives, don't you? You must faint at the sight of them like young girls did when they first saw the Beatles.

How's this for a novel idea..No bonus for ANYONE until the company is profitable?

Oh, we can't......I forgot.......We don't want all the valuable executives jumping ship...But the rest of us......well, if we don't like it....we should quit.....

Let's see.....$64,000,000 shared amongst 80,000 employees......But let's say $300,000,000 shared amongst a few hundred exectuives and top managers.......hmmm seems fair to me.

 

[IORFA]

You can have my $800 back, no problem!!! Try getting the greedy a$$holes in management to do the same.

 

[The Goose]

I'd be happy to give back the $450 I got ($800 before taxes) if need be to comply with rules like that for taking taxpayer money.

The SOBs can argue with the government for the balance as that's who took it.