Hopeful we all have taken concessions at AA, no one more than me likes it!Checking it Out said:
In other words no one likes it more than you? So you like the concessions?
Thats why we have changed leadership in Tulsa.
Hold on just one minute here!
You have been insisting that all the concessions were neccisary and that the TWU did the right thing.
Now you are saying that you replaced your leadership because of the concessions. That does not make sense. If the leadership did the right thing, if the TWU did the right thing why are you saying thats why you replaced the leadership? Did your President sign the contract into place "without further ratification"? If your local leadership has been replaced but those who control the contract can not be replaced then what is the point? If you are now saying that your local leaders deserved to be replaced then doesnt the same hold true for Jim Little and the International? In other words shouldnt we replace the entire TWU with AMFA?
Now we are going to work on rebuilding over the next 18 months and unite the membership as we enter negotiations with AA.
Rebuilding? What are you saying needs to be rebuilt? Are we goingto "stand united" and give more concessions so the TWU can get more dues payers? Do you have a plan or just more rhetoric?
Anyone that is willing to see both sides of the issue of union vs. union can see the TWU is a better choice to lead us into negotiations.
Based upon their past performance? Why did you replace your leaders again? For the great job that the TWU did in getting us paycuts? Have you seen the graph of mechanics pay vs CPI under the TWU?
As a paid adviser, moreover, McCormick helped install the Professional Flight Attendants Assn. (PFAA) at Northwest Airlines after ousting the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. With McCormick acting as outside consultant, the PFAA is now trying to supplant the Association of Flight Attendants at United. Note: Amfa claims a Mechanic only Union while subsidizing other groups!
Are you saying that McCormick, a private company that provides services to AMFA can only work for AMFA? Is Luby under the same constraints? How about FPA, you know the company where Sonny son worked that gets us all those screwed up insurance policiesxthat keep landing the International in court as ripped off members sue the union?
I think its great that the Flight attendants are going into a flight attendants union. Its about time for them too. I think that the AFA blew it. They did not want to step on any of the other AFL-CIO unions toes so they sold their members and their mission short be leaving flight attendants all split up in different unions. It made them weaker as a whole. They should have gone after all the flight attendants, instead they went belly up and begged the CWA to take them in. I wont bad mouth the CWA, they are a good union, its no suprise that the APA did not go to the TWU, IAM or IBT. Maybe I will send the PFAA a contribution. I hope that McCormick helps the fleet service clerks get the AGW too.
How many years is it now that they have been talking about certifying flight attendants? At least 30. Still no progress. Seems that the AFA couldnt get it done, 100,000 member TWU couldnt do it, not the 700,000 member iAM, or even the 1.4 million member IBT. It sems that all these AFL-CIO unions, collectively over 2 million members could not get flight attendant certification over a 30 year period.
The fact is that the AFL-CIO unions have failed the mechanics, flight attendants and all the other ground workers. We need strong unions that only have our interests to deal with, like the pilots. The only way we can get united is to leave the TWU affiliated unions, reorganize outside the AFL-CIO and then, if it suits us-rejoin the AFL-CIO or form an entirely new alliance of airline unions.
