Aircraft maint issues

[Rogallo]

How much value has your 401k lost over the serious past downward corrections of the market?

A slight hiccup! Care to talk about how much it's gone up the last 5 years??

 

[The Watcher]

How much of your own money did you put in?

 

[Rogallo]

Do you not save your own money?

 

[The Watcher]

I don’t have a match, just my own money.

 

[Rogallo]

You will...

 

[The Watcher]

Who knows needs to be as high as the pilots.

 

[WeAAsles]

As I have stated many times........Given all we have given in terms of concessions, we should never have to give another concession again...But sadly, that is not how it works....I know the devil is in the details, but seeing and hearing the details today, I have to say it's not all that bad. LUS IAM folks won't agree with respect to the medical and pension issues. The company has moved substantially from what little the union has leaked out to us. Definitely a step in the right direction.
More vacation, sick time and holidays/holiday premium do sound good. The increase in premiums also sound good. A year's pay for those ready to retire is definitely a good thing. The outsourcing stays for the line but increase for the base. Something in the contract for many to like and many to dislike.
Now that it's all out there, I think certain items can be tweaked and we can hopefully expect a vote sooner rather than later.
But we have to see the ENTIRE package.

And I agree with Bob Owens...Getting our DB pension back won't happen. I know the union is fighting for it, but I think that is a losing battle.

Thank you for your opinion Metal. Tweaking huh. Good word tweaking.

 

[WeAAsles]

I'm not sure about unanimous vote, but since the association is 50/50, whatever union is chairing at the time is the tiebreaker??????????????

They haven’t been doing things quite by vote like we used to do it in sole TWU land. From what I was told it’s pretty much they just hammer stuff out with each other until they all agree it’s time to accept each piece of the puzzle and move on. Basically general consensus.

They have a lot more people in there then the CWA/IBT had when they agreed to let their deal go to their members. They had 1 President out of the 5 that was against and he stayed away or was left out of the roadshows but he made his disapproval known on Social Media.

 

[Matt1200]

All the demonstrations are not going to help. Work safe and follow the job card and maintenance manuals to the letter. If we would just follow these items the aircraft will park themselves. Stop going above and beyond to help this airline. They have no respect for us!

 

[B737 driver]

A slight hiccup! Care to talk about how much it's gone up the last 5 years??

Rogallo could you please explain to Watcher this isn't the 1950's, and doesn't work for a railroad, he works for an Airline, and no airlines want to maintain defined pension plans. His precious Parker included when he flushed his pension plan down the toilet and almost his job, when they almost went Chapter 7. However American saved his job. Good luck guys.

 

[Rogallo]

Rogallo could you please explain to Watcher this isn't the 1950's, and doesn't work for a railroad, he works for an Airline, and no airlines want to maintain defined pension plans. His precious Parker included when he flushed his pension plan down the toilet and almost his job, when they almost went Chapter 7. However American saved his job. Good luck guys.

Not possible!

 

[ATXAMT]

Do you work for AA?

Do you work for AA maintenance?

 

[B737 driver]

Do you work for AA maintenance?

No he doesn't but he loves to troll maintenance pages.

 

[WeAAsles]

No he doesn't but he loves to troll maintenance pages.

And Maintenance people love to troll Fleet pages too. So what’s your point?

 

[swamt]

Credibility

Or shall I say lack of?

You have no idea.