XJTGuy said:
All,
Take your blindfold off your head and look 360 degrees.
Another one blinded by the facts.
1. Lets see we fly into 89 mainline stations and mechanics only push at six stations, and the staffing is a skeleton crew and you would need the same amount of mechanics just to do the checks and fix broken planes. (This company illegally tried to outsource heavy mtc and got an injuction slapped on them)
"Mechanics will continue to perform the dispatch function of operating
the pushback vehicle in BOS, DCA, LGA, PIT, CLT and PHL. During
deicing events, irregular operations or when mechanics are not available
due to performing non-dispatch mechanic duties on other aircraft, any
other IAM represented employee may perform the dispatch function."
2. Once again, we fly into 89 mainline stations, there three shift staffing at BOS, CLT, DCA, LGA, PHL, PIT, LAX and SFO, for Utility. The other ten stations are third shift only.
So at the 81 stations we either have the ramp (who makes $3 more an hour) cleaning planes, a vendor of F/A.
3. In PIT they are not calling overtime for deicing, and who do you want deicing a plane you fly on, a Certified AMT or some joe blow off the street making $8 an hour?
4. US Airways only has catering at CLT, PIT and PHL, and where we use Skychefs it costs more for a plane to be catered by them then our own people, and we only serve meals on flight of 700 miles or more.
Once again you have not seen 20,000 of your coworkers on the street, lost your pension or taken massive pay and benefit cuts. This company came to the employees TWICE for a total of $1.1 Billion in concessions per year, yet at every avenue violate the very collective bargaining agreements they negotiated and signed.
There is no trust from labor to Dave and his team, they have lied, cheated and stolen from US Airways' employees, once again you are an outsider and you have not lived thru what has happened. So don't tell the good employees of US Airways what they need to do, they all ready have it is an inept management team that does not know how to run an airline, not the employees!