TWU,TEAMSTERS AND AA
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How old are you? Like about 12 or 13 yrs old?
You don't have to be young to be simple.
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Not IBT
So, we have a ramper taking an interest in AMT representation issues....really? That's all we need.
Funny. I know a total of four people who were involved and all four preferred AMFA. But I guess everyone else is crazy and not you huh? You are a real piece of work.
So I guess according to you US Air mechanics, sitting next to their soon to be coworkers at AA at the bottom of the industry by a margin in excess or $10,000/year in compensation are better off than their better compensated peers? We aren't talking about a situation that's been in effect for a few weeks, but rather years. The IAM failed in 2002 and despite several profitable years their mechanics wages, let alone other forms of compensation, still aren't even close to what they lost over ten years ago. That's OVER TEN YEARS AT THE BOTTOM!!!!! Something needs to change.
US filed chapter 11 in 2002 and concessions were given in 2002 and 2003, then US filed Chapter 11 again in 2004 and our CBA was abrogated in 2005, then in 2008 US and the IAM agreed to a transition agreement to merge the East and West, and that is better than your 2003 concessions and your Chapter 11 CBA and are in Section 6 negotiations.
The US/IAM CBA has more pay, vacation, sick time, swaps, and scope than your AA/TWU CBA.
The US/IAM CBA has more pay, vacation, sick time, swaps, and scope than your AA/TWU CBA.
Both deals suck. I thought my post made that clear. I'll even admit that ours is even worse than yours thanks to Jim Littles appointed henchmen Gless and Videtich who made sure we didn't get, or even ask for a release three years ago when after four years of virtually no progress at restoring what we gave up in 2003, our members overwhelmingly rejected what the company admitted was a "zero cost contract", and continued to make sure that AA got everything they wanted, even language to eliminate the jobs they still claim they "saved". The point was that neither of our deals, where we pay union dues, is as good as what they have at UAL, SWA or even Delta and Jet Blue. You go around touting your pension, but the fact is your pension sucks too, mechanics wont be able to retire because the pension isn't enough, and you cant try and maximize or even supplement your income in the trade that you were employed for most of your adult life because your pension prohibits working as a mechanic for another carrier, so what ends up happening is people simply stay forever, or until they can no longer work then die shortly afterwards broke. The average age of a mechanic at US is over 55. The place is full of AARP candidates, that shows how great your pension is, its so great they work till they are about to die.
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Didn't the IBT takeover in 2008 at UAL? Just got a new IBT flyer saying they can do for AA what they did at United. I hope not according to the stats and this WSJ article. IBT? Can't take that ride.
"UAL Corp.’s United Airlines had the biggest decline in maintenance workers last year [2009], reducing its number of mechanics by 38.2%, BTS said."
http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2010/06/09/new-numbers-on-airline-job-losses-and-outsourcing/
"UAL Corp.’s United Airlines had the biggest decline in maintenance workers last year [2009], reducing its number of mechanics by 38.2%, BTS said."
http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2010/06/09/new-numbers-on-airline-job-losses-and-outsourcing/
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According to your link...
"Among major airlines, Southwest Airlines Co. outsources the highest percentage of its maintenance work at 61.7% of dollars spent, according to BTS."
How 'bout that swamt? Overspeed caught you in another web and didn't even know it
