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- Aug 20, 2002
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What is needed, I've recommended for a long time - we need an industry-wide all work groups included strike. The boneheads in the government will let this holocaust continue agaist the workers of the airlines, unless drastic action is taken. The employees keep on being taken out back and raped over and over and over again. The government continues to sit around and LET the airlines lay thousands upons thousands off and destroy the benefits and salaries of those who remain.
Folks, the executives at the airlines have been waiting for this opportunity for years. They have wanted to force employees to work for McDonald's wages and have taken full advantage of the current post-9/11 situation to ruin us. This whole scenario is Frank Lorenzo's fantasy played out en-masse.
However, the flight attendants are not enough. What we need is unity, brothers and sisters. We need EVERY airline employee from 747 pilot to part-time ramp agent to make it clear that we've had enough of the games. If just one airline strikes, passengers go to another carrier, your airline will probably fold and if somehow survives our sleezy leadership will just hire some SH!TTY LITTLE SCABS. (If you're reading this and you think about scabbing - just a word of advice from a veteran, DON'T. Just ask the scum who crossed Eastern's lines. We will find out.)
However, if the whole business says "screw you" and walks, air commerce grinds to a halt. They have no airlines to turn to. It takes days to get home. Congress' phones start ringing off the hook. Angry passengers riot in terminals. The airline employees finally have the upper hand again. See, folks, this is what unionism is all about - unity between the work groups across airlines. Back in the day, unions would have had a set and would have done what was needed to keep the companies in line. Today, the unions have no ba11s, they folk quickly and adopt the company opinion. They are more interested in raising your dues and spending it on themselves and politicians (scum like Kerry, who wants to see US Airways fail!!!!!) than they are in any type of serious activism.
There is enough blood in streets and it is time we take them back.
We demand:
1. Immediate rehire of ALL laid off airline personell from 09/11 until present with no loss in seniority or pay.
2. Immediate restoration of all pensions and other benefits taken away since 09/11
3. Return of all contract items, with back pay, taken away since 09/11.
4. Government intervention to all bankrupt airlines.
5. Restoration of government regulation, so that costs of travel actually reflect costs incurred.
If we all work together, than we can make a difference.
513 :angry:
Folks, the executives at the airlines have been waiting for this opportunity for years. They have wanted to force employees to work for McDonald's wages and have taken full advantage of the current post-9/11 situation to ruin us. This whole scenario is Frank Lorenzo's fantasy played out en-masse.
However, the flight attendants are not enough. What we need is unity, brothers and sisters. We need EVERY airline employee from 747 pilot to part-time ramp agent to make it clear that we've had enough of the games. If just one airline strikes, passengers go to another carrier, your airline will probably fold and if somehow survives our sleezy leadership will just hire some SH!TTY LITTLE SCABS. (If you're reading this and you think about scabbing - just a word of advice from a veteran, DON'T. Just ask the scum who crossed Eastern's lines. We will find out.)
However, if the whole business says "screw you" and walks, air commerce grinds to a halt. They have no airlines to turn to. It takes days to get home. Congress' phones start ringing off the hook. Angry passengers riot in terminals. The airline employees finally have the upper hand again. See, folks, this is what unionism is all about - unity between the work groups across airlines. Back in the day, unions would have had a set and would have done what was needed to keep the companies in line. Today, the unions have no ba11s, they folk quickly and adopt the company opinion. They are more interested in raising your dues and spending it on themselves and politicians (scum like Kerry, who wants to see US Airways fail!!!!!) than they are in any type of serious activism.
There is enough blood in streets and it is time we take them back.
We demand:
1. Immediate rehire of ALL laid off airline personell from 09/11 until present with no loss in seniority or pay.
2. Immediate restoration of all pensions and other benefits taken away since 09/11
3. Return of all contract items, with back pay, taken away since 09/11.
4. Government intervention to all bankrupt airlines.
5. Restoration of government regulation, so that costs of travel actually reflect costs incurred.
If we all work together, than we can make a difference.
513 :angry:
umech said:
Hey 513 where can I get some of those herbs you smokin' :groovy:
