AA SVP Jim Ream on Last Best Offer Video

[eolesen]

The company is still allowed to communicate with its employees, Odie. They can't force you to sit in a room and watch it.

If you choose to click on it, that's hardly coercion.

 

[Overspeed]

Does any part of this video influence our vote on the twu crap ta the international is selling? Just wondering if their is some sort of violation, since we are going through our voting process.

It's not a TA. Nobody on the Committee agreed to this. Little stated we would get to vote on the Last Best Offer. Now you have the right to exercise your vote. You want a democracy in your union, you get it, and now you are pissed.

 

[Overspeed]

Still waiting for you to start.

Now that's funny

 

[Buck]

It's not a TA. Nobody on the Committee agreed to this. Little stated we would get to vote on the Last Best Offer. Now you have the right to exercise your vote. You want a democracy in your union, you get it, and now you are pissed.

When do we get to vote on international officers?

When do we get to vote to remove the closed shop?

When do we get an open election to determine our representative?

You tout democracy, then turn into a hypocrite.

 

[Overspeed]

When do we get to vote on international officers?

When do we get to vote to remove the closed shop?

When do we get an open election to determine our representative?

You tout democracy, then turn into a hypocrite.

Nope, not at all. Just pointing out there is no winning with you guys. If we had not voted on the LBO and the court abrogated the agreement the TWU would have been faulted for not letting the membership vote. Now that the LBO is being voted on the TWU is being faulted for not telling AMR to shove it and going to court. And I am a hypocrite? Okay, whatever you say.

 

[TWU informer]

It's not a TA. Nobody on the Committee agreed to this. Little stated we would get to vote on the Last Best Offer. Now you have the right to exercise your vote. You want a democracy in your union, you get it, and now you are pissed.

Every person at AA has some form or another of compassion for those that are about lose their jobs.
It is not the Union's responsibility to hire, fire, or dictate headcount. But they will be leaving, not because you failed to give enough this time, they are leaving because your last concession for jobs program FAILED them. And now you want to repeat the exact same mistake cloaked in a different form of threat!

You have been led into a trap to believe otherwise by AA Management, and they are using that belief to manipulate and control you. All the while you voluntarily believe that you are doing what is right by giving in again.

The fact still remains, that right here at American Airlines and at the Tulsa Maintenance Base, this concessions for jobs idea has been tried and failed on more than one occasion. They get you to bend on every work rule, and allow many contractual language statements that leave the future to be determined "at their discretion" and you do nothing but screw us all and in the end out of the same jobs you claim to save because those jobs are all actually lost in the long run anyway. Meanwhile, you ignore this history at AA and instead find specific issues at other carriers to propagate your ignorance and stupidity while your own history right here at AA is all you need to learn from.

Name one single company that is thriving in any industry, that keeps more heads on the payroll than is needed to produce and then has a union that refuses to allow accountability of production quotas, safety standards, and attendance compliance? Combine that with weak and inept management that allows you the union fool leader to keep running the company and you have a recipe for the destruction of an entire workforce and profession.

You and the other stooges that have egoic minds that are useless and clueless actually believe you can step in and do what management cannot do. You claim to be saving jobs with this bullcrap you are advancing, when in fact you doing nothing more than causing the destruction of all of us.

We keep being asked to fall on the sword on a regular basis to save jobs, when in fact we are doing nothing more than slowly bleeding to death from the wounds of the sword.

Pull your F'ing head out and quit living a false fantasy and lead this union membership into a real cultural change that will secure all of our futures instead of destroying a once great profession. Go negotiate increased pay and benefis along with accountability procedures, cut whatever heads are not needed, and then demand changes in management to embrace and enforce this idea and then, and only then will see you real jobs being saved.

After the loss of the defined pension, we are last in the industry in "all-in" compensation because our holidays, vacation, medical plan, and pay leave us last in the industry. And what do you and James C Little do? Advocate through FEAR that we accept another reduction and set a new LOW in the industry and reduce that "all-in" compensation even further,

TWU signs up with the Pilots and Flight Attendants to take a stand against corporate greed, James C Little is seen on a video screaming the Bankruptcy Court is a crime scene and that yellow tape should surround the building and AA Headquarters, then in less than a week, he is on another video using fear to scare his membership into accepting another stick of the sword to save jobs.

VOTE NO!

 

[Birdman]

Well said Informer. The overspeeds just want bragging rights on saving jobs "for a couple of years" with total disregard for our professions.

 

[Ed Norton]

A union member who is so concerned with the moment of conception yet thinks nothing of sending out 20 somethings off to die in a war that ends up being nothing more than a wild goose chase for WMD? Not to mention all of the innocent people in the middle east that have gotten killed in the process? Oh! the sanctity of life! Give me a break hypocrits. Yeah I'm a democrat and you will get my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands. The "real" republicans ( the ones with money) would love to have our guns but they know the dupes would turn on them in a heartbeat and they need that vote. The only reason we're still hooked on fossil fuels is because there is still money to be made off of it. We have the technology but lets just keep polluting the planet and bleeding the consumer at the pump as long as we possibly can so we can keep lining our pockets. The Democrats are not the party thats trying to bust unions, the GOP is. They always have. Its number one their list. The thing with the leaders of the GOP is they are just so darn good at lying and the working people that vote for them are so easliy duped. Who do think Mr.Horton and company vote for?

Amen, brother. Dont let them paint you in a box. I'm against abortion, love the 2nd amendment, I could care less if gays want to marry or not. I'm also against these wars for profit that as you ponted out, have killed thousands to benefit a few. I despise the democratic party just as much as I despise the republicans. Two sides, one coin. THe republicans wrap themselves in patriotic and pro family rhetoric for votes: the democrats claim to be the champion of the poor and working man, again, to gain votes. Both parties use the whore media to convince us that we only have the two afore mentioned choices. What a racket.!

 

[Ed Norton]

This is for Jim Ream:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4e8iAofnrw

 

[Ed Norton]

I'm sorry but I cna't help it.

Jim Ream? Sounds like a 70's porn actors name. I like Rock Steady better!

 

[olderguyAMT]

"TWU signs up with the Pilots and Flight Attendants to take a stand against corporate greed, James C Little is seen on a video screaming the Bankruptcy Court is a crime scene and that yellow tape should surround the building and AA Headquarters, then in less than a week, he is on another video using fear to scare his membership into accepting another stick of the sword to save jobs."

The TWU should be marching with them, instead, they are marching with the Company. What a Bunch of Dufuses.

Vote NO.

 

[AA-MRO.COM]

Chuck is that the best you can do? No I will keep posting factual information instead of making videos with misleading information and false predictions made by wannabe attorneys and financial experts.

Don't worry Chuck we are going to find out what happens when we vote to reject the LBO if your prayers are answered. I really do hope I am wrong about the 3/22 term sheet being implemented and the TWU legal team pulls off a miracle and stops abrogation. I really hope you are right. If not you and the video boys will be at the door when each of the 4,300 are walked out saying, "I swear, I thought we had this one in the bag."

And you will be at the door with your concessions for jobs speech. Thats much better. Then in six months AA will lay you off anyway no job protection but keep drinking the KOOL AAID

 

[Buck]

Are there going to be upper management OSM's in AA's new business plan?

They couldn't screw up any worse.

 

[Vortilon]

A union member who is so concerned with the moment of conception yet thinks nothing of sending out 20 somethings off to die in a war that ends up being nothing more than a wild goose chase for WMD? Not to mention all of the innocent people in the middle east that have gotten killed in the process? Oh! the sanctity of life! Give me a break hypocrits. Yeah I'm a democrat and you will get my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands. The "real" republicans ( the ones with money) would love to have our guns but they know the dupes would turn on them in a heartbeat and they need that vote. The only reason we're still hooked on fossil fuels is because there is still money to be made off of it. We have the technology but lets just keep polluting the planet and bleeding the consumer at the pump as long as we possibly can so we can keep lining our pockets. The Democrats are not the party thats trying to bust unions, the GOP is. They always have. Its number one their list. The thing with the leaders of the GOP is they are just so darn good at lying and the working people that vote for them are so easliy duped. Who do think Mr.Horton and company vote for?

You make me laugh, "innocent people in the middle east" - now that is funny.

 

[Strake]

You make me laugh, "innocent people in the middle east" - now that is funny.

I'm not surprised a guy like you, would get a kick out it. Your attitude shows us precisely where your head is. Bravo! Good job!