Its the company that will wait until 2009....not IAM.
Its quite advantageous for them moneywise to make you wait until 2012 most likely and NO retro.
(Quiet laughter abounds in Tempe)
thanks for reminding us, again. the IAM has lost scope while on premises, IBT lost nothing.The IAM is not in negotiations with the company yet. And US/East still has far superior scope language than the west.
Dont forget it took two bankruptcies, three rounds of concessions and a CBA abrogation in order for that to be accomplished.
There was never an agreement in the last bankrutpcty and the membership ratified the final offer which gave up the work.
Don't let the facts get in your way!
I KNOW THIS HARD FOR YOU ....BUT AT THE MERGER IF THE VOTE WENT TO THE IBT YOUR IAM RAG WOULD HAVE BEEN ON A STALL TILL A COMTRACT WAS REACHED. ( ITS THE MEMBERS VOTE NOT THE SIZE OF THE UNION.. ) YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND USAIR DID NOT BUY AMERICAWEST!!!!!! IT WAS A MERGER OR AS THE COMPANY HAS PROVEN, THATS WHY THE IAM C.O.C. FAILED(YOU KNOW THAT SNAP-BACK PAY THE IAM WAS SO POSITIVELY VOICED ABOUT AT THE START OF THE MERGER TO SWAY PEOPLE FROM VOTING FOR THE TEAMSTERS!!!! THIS IS WHY I DON'T WANT A REALTED (LAV DUMPER / PARTS RUNNER) 😛 VOTING FOR WHAT IS BEST FOR A LICENSED AIRFRAME AND POWERPLANT MECHANIC. AMFA LOOKING REAL GOOD RIGHT NOW....Do you not understand the East CBA would have been the surviving CBA no matter what union represents the M&R, so if you voted in the IBT the IBT would have administered the East CBA as the East had the larger workforce and the East CBA would have survived not the West.
This has been explained many times, do you not read?
And the East Scope language is still superior than the west, you would have been taking a step backwards.
Lets see the East has been getting raises for three years, how long has it been since the west saw a COLA raise and not a step raise?