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In Topic: Kansas Republican on board with anti-merger group

25 April 2012 - 02:29 PM

FWAAA, on 25 April 2012 - 01:06 PM, said:

Lotsa Boeing parts:

http://www.spiritaer...us.aspx?id=2729

Final assembly is in the Seattle area, but substantial manufacturing occurs in Kansas.

Don't worry. That Republican will be sending that manufacturing work overseas soon.

In Topic: An Airline Owning A Refinery?

07 April 2012 - 09:59 AM

Barfbag, on 07 April 2012 - 01:08 AM, said:

Humans expelle methane at intervals of twenty times a day. That's a lot of gas....on each flight filled with passengers...

now if they could get enough gas to propell an aircraft.

I think an oil company buying an airline makes more sense. This way the oil company won't necessarily have to deal with the airline, just provide them oil at a reduced rate. However, they would be slitting their own throat in part by doing this. This would force the other oil companies to have to match the rate. Poof! there would go the profits.....

In Topic: Election Results 562?

17 December 2011 - 01:19 PM

Bob Owens, on 17 December 2011 - 09:55 AM, said:

Unofficially all the incumbents remained on the board, one new Section Chairman was voted in and one Section Chairman race is a tie. I have no numbers.

Did I just hear HSS's butt just pucker? Well done JFK.

In Topic: One Single Local for AMT's

28 November 2011 - 04:51 PM

Bob Owens, on 25 November 2011 - 09:32 AM, said:

People who resist change often do so out of fear but also simply because that staus quo just suits them fine.

Change will come, one way or another, for the last twenty years most of it has been bad, except for the 2001 agreement.

What percentage of your peers participate in any meaningful fashion? How many even bother to vote? 30%? Yet you see no reason to try and change things. I guess you like it that way, easier to simply blame the members for not participating instead of trying to facilitate participation.

TWU Local 100, several contracts, one Local-works pretty well. Industry Leading Contracts. Nobody is talking about dumping the TWU over there. Local 556, one contract, one Local, nobody is talking about dumping the TWU over there and they are spread out just like us. Industry Leading Contracts. Local 555, one contract, one local, same thing. Industry Leading contracts. TWU/AA several contracts, even more Locals, several drives to get rid of the TWU and industry leading concessions. Even our Dispatchers and Sim Tech guys, who also are all in one local each,do fairly well when we arent dragging them down.

Just imagine former Local 514 prez and sellout Steve Luis running the one local. No witnesses to see him give the farm away.

In Topic: TWU negotiations.........what?

09 October 2011 - 07:46 PM

strikeforce, on 09 October 2011 - 02:15 PM, said:

It's not about the wage difference, it's about TUL using the roll call vote to dictate wages, benefits, or getting released! Why don't you let the Line decide our own fate....and, TUL decides it's own! Why bother having 17 presidents vote on motions if TUL has so much power and can dictate everything?

So much for having seperate negotiations, and seperate maintenance locals because NOTHING has changed!

Perhaps the time has come for separate contracts between the Line and Overhaul?