Bob,
What I would like to know is why Little didn't start negotiations in 2006.
He partied about the early openers he obtained with stock options when Carty was caught with SERP Package for Management. He expressed the gain in several court filings as why he signed off without further ratification of the membership.
Yet, the early opener option came and went, now the amendable date has come and gone, and management has openly rewarded themselves without hiding it and all Little can do is purchase newspaper ads and get quoted in the editorials about sending "a loud message".
He didnt initiate early openers for the same reason he no longer even mentions the pay cuts. His promises of getting everything back were as truthful as his claims of having earned a Batchelors Degree and a Masters Degree. When the man speaks its safe to assume he lies. He never had any intentions on getting anything back and he is deliberately avoiding even mentioning the paycuts. He always has. His promise of getting it all back in 2006 was simply another lie.
Back when I was first elected I requested a copy of the blue book wage charts as far back as possible from Jim Little. I was driving him from JFK to LGA so he could catch a trip back to DFW.He had attended our first membership meeting, and unknowingly thats where he told his first big lie to us-thats where he first claimed to have a Batchelors and a Masters Degree from Columbia, he left out the rest and nobody had the means to check. Well anyway, after discussing that Koziatek had to go he agreed to send me the wage charts. Several weeks went by and still no wage charts, finally I was told that they dont have the time to go through all the files and that if I wanted them I would have to fly down to DFW and look for them myself-which I did. When I got there Koziatek had them in a pile on his desk.
After taking the figures and factoring in the CPI rate of inflation I plotted the figures on a graph. I sent a copy to Little who was not thrilled to see the results. It was obvious that he did not want this distributed. He asked for all the figures, which I sent him and that was the last of it.
At the time Little was talking about how he wanted to improve communication, that was his platform. He came out with two newsletters and that was the end of that. Since becoming President his big push for Communication has been to shrink the TWU Express and add more color pages, and to have the negotiations committeee pledge not to communicate whats going on in contract talks.
Little never disputed the figures nor the methodology, in fact he admitted that it showed a significant decline but he never showed this graph to the members or the press. He didnt want to inform the members nor raise their expectations-he wanted to keep us on track.
We used the same graph plus the then pending figures from the 2003 agreement in the ad we took out in the Tulsa World illustrating what we were voting on. If you look at the graph and draw a line across what I call "the AMFA spike" you will see that Little put us right back on the same downward trajectory that we were on before AMFA appeared on the scene. Its just too obvious to be accidental.
The guy is worthless, weak, stupid, ignorant, and the only person I know that survived an illness of cancer only to make others severely sick with pathetic decisions.
The man lies so much I wonder if he ever was really sick at all.
What's worse is he was promoted to International President due to the failed AMFA Drive which illegal and unethical means were used to prevent a membership vote on representation matters.
Plus he no doubt impressed the dolts in the International with his phony degrees. He even had them listed in his bio until I exposed his whole scam on a thread on this website.
There is no acronym or name bad enough for this Dictator and I cannot think of another person I have more hate and disdain for on the planet. I am not a hateful person at all, but this guy brings the worst of my character flaws to light.
I'm sure that I could think of a few that come close but they would probably get me suspended again.
