seed said:20 years of concessions, that's a heavy number. Were any of AA/TWU agreements voted upon by the TWU membership, or were the imposed by the TWU. Regardless of what is presented to the membership for a vote, ALL items could have been rejected , thus forcing the two entities to again hit the "bargaining table". This evidently did not occur, your membership voted each contract in. Now I could see blaming the TWU for one or two contracts with weak language and low raises, but 20 years worth?
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Yes, twenty years worth. You expect your union to give you useful information, not simply forward what ever the company tells them to say.
Could have been rejected? Many nearly were despite the TWUs deceptions. The TWU has an elaborate blame shifting scheme where they tell the members to vote out their Presidents if they dont like the contracts. But the fact is that the Presidents and negotiating committees dont really have any part in the process. The whole thing is handled by the International, people that the members can not remove.
Most contracts were put in place by Tulsa. Tulsa has more votes than all the line stations put together.
Jim Little told our members to "never reject a tentative agreement" because "the company will never sweeten the pot because if they do they they will always have to do it".
Seed, I'm assuming that you are from MCI, so your TWU experience has been limited. I've had a lot of experience with the TWU. Jim Little is nothing but a con man. He is procompany, even had close members of his family in AA management and has been an asssett to AMR for many years.