1986Mekanic
Veteran
- Jun 1, 2018
- 572
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Same story, 15x. Poor upey loop, screwed by the union.... Ive had it rammed into me a time or 2, so f'n what.. Move the F on.You don't know what the hell your talking about AMFAinMIAMI. You are just slinging mud.
I was UNION.
Local 514.
They shut my shop down because we were Title 3 (Fleet Service) at a Title 1 (Mechanics) controlled base and no one gave a crap about us and the 514 President (Sam Cirri) a Fleet Service Clerk and Debbie TIller, the Fleet Service chairman, were too busy cutting an under the table deal to save their own ass to represent our interest.
I paid a hell of a lot of money over the years to NOT get represented.
I support UNIONs but I do not support TWU because they sure as hell did not support me. Maybe things are different under AMFA. Maybe if I worked under AMFA I would have a different attitude.
When you have people you pay to represent you stab you in the back and worked in an environment where the majority of rank and file employees were either openly hostile or indifferent to your very existence. (most mechanics were either glad to see us go or could care less) then feel free to share your opinion about others living up to your UNION ideals.
One of the people in our shop attended a meeting at the local 514 UNION hall to air grievances about our shop being eliminated only to have another UNION member (a mechanic) tell him to sit down and shut his mouth while the rest of the membership applied peer pressure to censor and censure him. That is 514 representation. Does that sound like a UNION to you? You ever have a fellow UNION brother just totally shut you out at a UNION meeting?
Save your IGM speech and accusations. When you work under the same sorry circumstances I did for 12 years then feel free to comment. Until then save me the benefit of your know nothing judgemental comments about me living up to your UNION ideals.