usfliboi said:
I wish their was just a place for "some" iam members to post, however one only has to lok across these boards to see a couple usually hijack a majority of the threads concerning their issues. I do not have a problem with the majority of iam members. Most to not agree with the likes of 700 or pitguy. I hear whats said on the line by the majority. They are not "obsessed" as some on here appear to be. The majority of its member s are good people with great skill and its appreciated. Unfortunatly as in with any union, most of the " bad guys" are the ones taking up resources in order to protect thier job.
You have no clue, the majority of the mechanic and related are fed up with this company and how they have stolen our work and treated us. You don't work in Maintenance, if you really are a F/A, you only come in contact with less then 1% of the workers, the majority of the mechanic and related work in CLT and PIT base MTC. Speak for yourself and not my coworkers or myself, you have all ready been proven to not be what you say you are.
If you don't believe it, go ask Sr VP of Maintenance John Prestifillipio how he was treated at his officer's outreach in CLT last week and why the IAM is standing up for its contract and its members.
How is being a trade unionist, and standing up for what the company AGREED to in our contract make someone a bad person? People in history have died to stand up for workers rights, go read up on the Haymarket riots in chicago, or the how the pinkertons killed workers who stood up against the company, or maybe the Triangle Shirt Factory fire, or the Chicken Plant fire in NC. Take the time to educate yourself on how workers use to be treated and why they formed unions to stand up for their rights and to be treated as human beings and not slaves. Go ask Lech Walesa how it felt to get shot at the Gdansk Shipyards to have the right to have a voice on how you are treated at work, I personally know someone who was in Solidarity and was shot at in the Shipyards for standing up for workers rights, so don't you ever dare call me a bad person because I am standing up for my rights and my coworkers rights.
Do you think there is a 40 hour work week, overtime laws, OSHA regulations and the protections against child labor because big business and government wanted them? They are they because of workers and unions who were fed up with being exploited by the corporate robber barons who are the likes of the Duponts, the Carnieges, Pullman and their buddies.
Go read up on labor history and why unions were formed, they were formed to give the worker some check and balances and not be at the mercy of the company. Go back to the mines where you worked in the mines, got paid in company script and not money, then you lived in a company house, and had to buy all your goods and services from the company, and there went all your company script back to the company, so basically they kept you poor and uneducated so they could treat you like slaves.
You are very uneducated on what unions are all about and why and how they came into exsistance, you can go back to the origins of the USA and the craftsman formed guilds, a guild is a union.
So how dare you criticise union members for standing up to companies who agreed to contracts and the companies violate them and exploit the workers.
You really need to go back and do some research, then maybe you will understand.
You can sign your check and give your job back to dave, don't ever speak on my behalf.
