Well nothing new to report accept we are coming to be in the same boat as American Airlines, no agreement, mediator doesn't have any days available till November, got the holidays, looks like next year maybe, picketing made no difference! Good luck for us all !
No we just have that inherent IGM mentality. We say yes we will stand by you but when push comes to shove the real inner person is exposed. Free food always gets the attention away from doing the right thing. I don't care for company or union free food. I didn't accept the free screwdriver and all the hoopla on AMT DAY. I just came to work and did my job I.A.W. the applicable manuals and rules governing my job title.
You guys will see publically who all the company men/women are. They will be the ones that stay back for the free food that the company wasn't going to do until they found out about picketing. And of course all the yahoos who freely sign up and accept all that unlimited O/T. Guys for just once let's all get on the same page as the union that is negotiating one (if not THE) most important JCBA of history at AA. The picketing does work, otherwise the company would not work so hard at trying to prevent people from attending. For just one day guys, do not sign up for O/T, and do not show up for the company food. It would be great to hear that AA had to donate thousands upon thousands of pounds of food to the local pantry to help the needy just because everyone refused to show up. See there guys, you would be doing your local shelters a HUGE favor by not eating the food from the company. So go help your local shelters out, refuse to sign up for any O/T and grab a picket sign and show big time support for your nego. comte. Good luck guys. Look forward to all the pics and videos...
You obviously don't know how things really are at AA. We will not get the best or ILC jcba as promised. The IAM and TWU are not on the same page in negotiations. I won't get into details. The M&E negotiating committee skipped out on the last meeting to discuss the seniority issues. They could have done that inbetween negotiation sessions. Hell, they only meet twice a month with the company. One wonders if the association or the negotiating members on both unions are serious about getting a jcba before next September or whenever.
The food yes, not signing up for overtime is considered self help and that Swamt resulted in 2 guys fired from SWA and AMFA sued including many officers on the negotiating committee and AMFA 11, not a good thing! And those poor guys still haven't got their jobs back, bad advice !
Well the president of local 591 said the same thing about overtime.
To not work it, you must have a stronger union then we do, because that's what happened to AMFA, sued by SWA for self help, and that was for 10 days, can you clarify ?
