It is a bad decision to have someone who has experience in confronting AMP(AMFA), only from AMP/AMFA’s point of view.
Identity is of great consequence to you. I can see that very clearly. Maybe I could be someone in our own back yard covertly operating from within. OOOOOH.
Kenny get over yourself please. There are puppets on the AMP side too, just as there were puppets over the years with AMFA. All this blathering about being professional is just window dressing because there has never been any enforcement of standards other than the FAA sending out LOIs. Every union that has represented amts, do what when one gets into a performance issue, defend the offender because they do not want a suit for duty of fair representation! So standards for amts need to be more stringent, starting with the schools, the FAA certificate process and then industry. How many of us do not look at our positions at whatever place of your employment as a valuable job, something that is precious and needs to be protected? How many of us do not strive to excell at a higher level day in and day out? How much dead weight is carried by the amts that can make the airplane go over the fence safely, while others cannot, or are hesitant to face the challenge? Look at the membership, the vast majority do not participate in the process of representation because there isn't interest and it does not matter if you can recall anyone or can't. For those that are political animals it matters. What have you done for me lately has always been in fashion with the malcontents, like yourself. You have been the same even when working in SAN, but didn't D V work a deal to get you to DFW? One thing the TWU did for many of us was to allow us to buy homes, send kids to college, and then retire with the best retirement in the airline industry.............have there been problems sure, but we have survived, the company survived because the unions on the property sacrificed dearly. another item isn't it true when that MD80 from Alaska Air crashed, one the local AMFA officers who also happened to be an inspector who inspected that jack screw, and told the company about his findings, was eventually removed from his union position and shortly there after left the company? I don't think he works in our business anymore. Also who has given the seed money to start AMP? All of us need to know before hand, otherwise it is a trust me situation, or the 3 promises that can't be kept, the first one is the chack is in the mail...........................do we need to be repaid for the sacrifice, of course we do..............BUT at what cost to ourselves?
I think it's rather comical how the solidarity they espouse in signing each of the letters coming from the TWU was responsible for getting the TA voted down.
